as in scraped
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound
I could hear the bicycle gears crunch as I shifted the derailleur
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Recent Examples of crunched
Citing Florida’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research, investment bank UBS crunched the rosy numbers and concluded that promised benefits are off.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026
The investment bank crunched the numbers to forecast a winner.
—Kimberly Richardson, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
The Talent Trust crunched the numbers and found that a lack of support leads to hidden waste of more than £50,000 ($67,000) across a 30-day production, with this loss coming from higher overtime and burnout costs, along with technical errors.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 May 2026
In Tuesday's primary, NPR's Senior Political Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro crunched the numbers.
—Megan Pratz, NPR, 27 May 2026
Game night flies by in a montage — the crutch of comedies that can’t sustain conversations and jokes at the same time (or, to be fair, feel crunched for time).
—Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 23 May 2026
But Ohsung Kwon and his team at Wells Fargo crunched the numbers to see whether job losses were occurring in industries that have heavily adopted AI.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 May 2026
The puck had just slipped through Poehling’s skates when McNabb crunched Poehling into the boards, knocking him out for the rest of the game and prompting an official review.
—Eric Stephens, New York Times, 13 May 2026
The agency did that, then crunched the numbers.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 May 2026
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026
The investment bank crunched the numbers to forecast a winner.
—Kimberly Richardson, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
The Talent Trust crunched the numbers and found that a lack of support leads to hidden waste of more than £50,000 ($67,000) across a 30-day production, with this loss coming from higher overtime and burnout costs, along with technical errors.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 May 2026
In Tuesday's primary, NPR's Senior Political Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro crunched the numbers.
—Megan Pratz, NPR, 27 May 2026
Game night flies by in a montage — the crutch of comedies that can’t sustain conversations and jokes at the same time (or, to be fair, feel crunched for time).
—Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 23 May 2026
But Ohsung Kwon and his team at Wells Fargo crunched the numbers to see whether job losses were occurring in industries that have heavily adopted AI.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 May 2026
The puck had just slipped through Poehling’s skates when McNabb crunched Poehling into the boards, knocking him out for the rest of the game and prompting an official review.
—Eric Stephens, New York Times, 13 May 2026
The agency did that, then crunched the numbers.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crunched
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Firecrawl has started working with partners including Wikipedia on this, with the idea that information sources providing real value to AI systems should be compensated for it, rather than scraped silently.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
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Public photos, captions and comments can get scraped, saved and connected to other personal details already online.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2026
Verb
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Both of these teams are elite and gritted through losses in the College World Series to get to these finals.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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Govel even gritted through a nasty stinger on a comebacker in the bottom of the fourth.—
Jack Vita,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
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“Crunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crunched. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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