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 Bears were facing fourth-and-1 from Green Bay's 14-yard line when Williams faked a handoff and rolled to his left.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The left likens it to a dragnet.
    Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2025
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
  • His front kick knockout of Tony Ferguson is a prime example.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 15 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
  • Ramin Rezaeian's beautiful cross from the right found Mohammad Mohebbi all alone in the box, and his glancing header to the far post has knotted things up yet again.
    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
  • O’Brien’s words echoed the taunts that the two had thrown back and forth at each other in an actual Senate hearing that almost ended in a knockdown, drag-out fight.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Thursday’s 118-91 thrashing, though, invited more than a Game 7.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • The thrashing of the DOC and prosecution followed a motion filed on Sunday by Allen's attorneys requesting he be removed from suicide precautions in prison.
    Peter D'Abrosca , Jake Gibson, FOXNews.com, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Potential price spikes would deliver a body blow to California motorists, who already pay the highest average price per gallon of gasoline in the country.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
  • Potential price spikes would deliver a body blow to California motorists, who already pay the highest average price per gallon of gasoline the country.
    Rob Nikolewski, Mercury News, 30 July 2025

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“Cruncher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cruncher. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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