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
Catholic University of America demographer Stephen Cranney crunched the numbers on the religion's families.
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NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
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).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
Reassuringly, Pies crunched the numbers on what followed past such streaks, and concludes that such calm ascents rarely come at the very end of a bull market.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Coloring Pages crunched the Google Trends data and counted up which donut type was the most searched in each state over the past year.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The figures were crunched by researchers at the Institute for Legislative Analysis (ILA), an organization closely affiliated with the Institute for Legislative Advocacy, a conservative group that promotes smaller government.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2025
While Damiano waited for David’s blood glucose to tick up or edge down, his engineering brain crunched the problem.
—Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Island Records emerged victorious, and despite being crunched for time, Thrice’s 2003 major label debut, The Artist in the Ambulance, became a foundational record to the post-hardcore subgenre.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Sumac slush crunched underfoot.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
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).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
Reassuringly, Pies crunched the numbers on what followed past such streaks, and concludes that such calm ascents rarely come at the very end of a bull market.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Coloring Pages crunched the Google Trends data and counted up which donut type was the most searched in each state over the past year.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The figures were crunched by researchers at the Institute for Legislative Analysis (ILA), an organization closely affiliated with the Institute for Legislative Advocacy, a conservative group that promotes smaller government.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2025
While Damiano waited for David’s blood glucose to tick up or edge down, his engineering brain crunched the problem.
—Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Island Records emerged victorious, and despite being crunched for time, Thrice’s 2003 major label debut, The Artist in the Ambulance, became a foundational record to the post-hardcore subgenre.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Sumac slush crunched underfoot.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crunched
Verb
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One of his conclusions after all that government service was that Congress had scraped too much power away from the presidency after the fiasco of Vietnam and scandal of Watergate.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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However, blocking only prevents future content from being scraped.—
Alex Reisner,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The Carolina Panthers gritted out a 13-6 win over the New York Jets on the road thanks to a two-interception day from Jaycee Horn, a turnover-free performance from the offense and a close-to-flawless day on special teams.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Crunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crunched. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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