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
  • At the top right is the head of the dry river bed — where the life-size heron statue is — and the bed curves down to the driveway on the left.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • The group, founded in 2019 to counter rising skepticism on the left toward the Jewish state, endorsed Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains for the seat in February.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Injuries — including a second knee surgery — limited Embiid to 57 total games over the past two seasons, including 38 in 2025-26.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 5 May 2026
  • Finally, Mira chalked her hands, boosted herself onto a dangling metal hoop, flipped upside down, and hung from a single knee, arms spread out like a rotor.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Another factor is that Barcelona do not currently have a real free-kick specialist.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • Reigns hit a pair of Superman punches, but Fatu hit a kick.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • The two heartthrobs have also become fashion icons in their own right.
    Dalila Muata, NBC news, 5 May 2026
  • The Declaration’s insurrectionist contention—that people, when unjustly provoked, have the right to dissolve their government—hung heavily in a country that had just witnessed the eleven states of the Confederacy make the same argument.
    Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Data centers’ voracious energy needs are setting off a power plant construction boom and delivering a one-two punch of new life to unions whose members also build and maintain boilers, ductwork, pipelines and other power infrastructure.
    Marc Levy, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • That means the Cowboys should continue to have arguably the NFL’s best one-two punch at wide receiver.
    Jon Machota, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Having knockdown shooters is essential to TCU’s pick-and-roll system and Grant is the exact type of player Mark Campbell has had success with.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Wilder got the only knockdown in the eighth round, sending Chisora through the ropes, but the American was deducted a point in the same round for pushing.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Arsenal enters the match as the favorite, but Sporting has been resilient in the Champions League, rebounding from a 3-0 loss to tournament darlings Bodo/Glimt with a 5-0 thrashing in Lisbon.
    Pueng Vongs, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • His only Champions League goal arrived in January’s 6-0 thrashing of Qarabag, and his only assists in the competition came in similarly comfortable wins over Eintracht Frankfurt and Galatasaray.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The image of Pages making the catch, as Kiké Hernandez absorbs a body blow, is already seared into Dodgers lore.
    Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026

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“Cruncher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cruncher. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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