cruncher

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Recent Examples of cruncher Plus every radio station and local television channel is broadcasting an equally grateful ad, commemorating this previously unheralded, unheard-of cruncher of numbers? David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025 Near the end of February, the White House announced that a relatively low-profile health care data cruncher with a passion for simplifying access to electronic medical records had been named DOGE’s acting administrator. Richie Duchon, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2025 The designers and data crunchers of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 operation also had a hand in perfecting INEOS’s 75-foot foiling vessel, as much a flying object as a boat. George Allen, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2024 For decades now, researchers have been trying to get computers to behave like artificial brains instead of merely binary data crunchers. IEEE Spectrum, 4 Apr. 2013 See All Example Sentences for cruncher
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Noun
  • The ball ricocheted off him to his left, where second baseman Santiago Espinal made a last-ditch effort to salvage the play but couldn’t pick up the ball cleanly.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
  • Labour have, since the 2024 election, lost a number of voters to parties on the liberal-left of the political spectrum, be that the Greens and Liberal Democrats, or Plaid Cymru in Wales and the SNP in Scotland.
    Anand Menon, Time, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • Police said Clark suffered non-life-threatening stab wounds to his upper chest, arm, mid-back and knee.
    CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • Mooney, Fields and Austin were the starters during the spring when Nabers (knee) and Slayton (sports hernia) were sidelined.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • As kick-off time nears, the samba beat quietens down and the players turn to prayer.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • Nickal stunned Daukaus with a front kick before sending him to the mat with a left hand.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • The report said witnesses claimed that the airplane lost some altitude before regaining it, then flew at treetop height and turned to the right before disappearing from their view.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 16 June 2026
  • During a fight for the ball by New Zealand defender Finn Surman and Iranian forward Shahriyar Moghanlou, the ball spilled toward Ramin Rezaeian, who tapped into the far post from close range on the right to tie things up 1-1 tie in the 32nd minute.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Olivia Rodrigo is a student of Love and her ilk who has been riding high off the one-two punch of 2021’s Sour and 2023’s Guts, chart-toppers dually indebted to modern pop and ’90s grunge.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 June 2026
  • And the one-two punch of these comparatively low-budget horror movies wiping the floor with their IP-heavy competition (The Mandalorian and Grogu, Masters of the Universe) over several early-summer weekends is the development that’s now sparked a million think pieces.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • Rodriguez dropped Vargas in the fifth round, the knockdown that flipped a competitive contest, then closed the show a round later to seal his three-division milestone.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • The first knockdown was a flash knockdown, bounced it off and came back harder.
    Chris McKenna, New York Times, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Thursday’s 118-91 thrashing, though, invited more than a Game 7.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • The Fever, perhaps more terribly potent with each passing day, is a two-hour spiral into the thrashing, slowly awakening soul of a Good Middle-Class Liberal.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • But for Sean Buchan, a co-owner of Cerebral Brewing, the Aurora phase could amount to a second economic body blow.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 11 May 2026
  • The defeat was a significant body blow to Arsenal’s aspirations, but City’s 1-0 victory over Burnley can strangely be viewed in a positive light for them.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026

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“Cruncher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cruncher. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.

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