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Recent Examples of crumb Thanks to strong multi-surface suction, this upright vacuum can go right from the living room carpet to the kitchen without missing a beat (or a crumb). Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026 Similarly, there’s a certain amount of etiquette that comes with eating on a plane—this may mean waiting for your seatmate to come back from getting out of their seat, eating quietly and keeping wrappers and crumbs in check, Kihaule says. Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2026 During times of high prices and compressed returns, retail investors are battling for the same crowded crumbs in the public stock market. Justin Donald, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Some teachers recommend doing it weekly to catch missing work, spills from leaky water bottles and accumulating crumbs. Cheyanne Mumphrey, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for crumb
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crumb
Noun
  • The food is stellar, as is the service, but there isn’t a shred of pretence about any of it.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The pork chop came with an unfamiliar vegetable, shreds of a green stalk.
    Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Hezlep House is on the market for a speck under $5 million with listing agent Nancy Valentine.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2026
  • That’s way off in the distance, barely a speck on the horizon.
    Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In Show Must Go On, the comedian embraces his own compassion by pretending to be a jerk.
    Britina Cheng, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • That screwed up the works / And not due to his sloppy hiring / Of a crew of incompetent jerks.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • So, with her back garden pantry set to soon look more potatoes-and-carrots than homegrown orange orchard, will the Duchess keep the all-Americana, Netflix-y glimmer and gloss?
    Chandler Tregaskes, Vanity Fair, 22 Aug. 2026
  • That rapid growth has provided a glimmer of hope in Hollywood, where optimism has been in short supply.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The soup itself has an almost lemon curd-like acidity and sweetness, and it’s laced with flecks of fresh corn and tiny diced pieces of zucchini.
    Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Amid his vast responsibilities running all the departments in the Giants’ front office, Zaidi still found the time to pore over MLB Draft League statistics and look for flecks of gold.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The Perk That Actually Works For years, companies have competed to fill their offices with amenities meant to signal ambition—ping pong tables, nap rooms, office dogs, sprawling lounges.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Authorities are using divers, dogs, sonar and other types of technologies to scour the area for Karen Solomon, Saucier said.
    Elise Hammond, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The majority of this year's hottest ZIP codes are located on the East Coast, with a sprinkling in the upper Midwest.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Think of it like a recipe, maybe adding flowers to a frosted cake or sprinkling powdered sugar atop a sponge cake; Stewart's rose gold hair injects a sprinkle of the same whimsy into the last few weeks of summertime.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Advanced reactor developers have adopted the technology for its ability to contain radioactive materials within each fuel particle.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
  • This code, developed at Switzerland’s University of Bern over two decades, is designed to simulate collisions between asteroids, comets and planets, and analyze the impact by looking at millions of individual particles involved in each scenario.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

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“Crumb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crumb. Accessed 23 Aug. 2026.

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