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as in shortages
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number
a severe energy crunch that resulted in long lines at the gas pumps
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as in crises
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
a player who's always good in a crunch, like when we need a goal to win the soccer match
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Recent Examples of crunches
Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 17 Oct. 2025
No leverage amplifying losses, no management teams making allocation decisions, no complex redemption mechanisms creating liquidity crunches.
—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2025
During times of stress, sudden retail redemptions could force asset sales at discounts, triggering liquidity crunches and pricing shocks in what have generally been stable markets.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Supply-chain crunches slowed key technologies.
—Justin Worland, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
Colorado policymakers, after several flush years following the pandemic, have faced a series of fiscal crunches over the past year.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Time crunches led the team of four — including production assistant Chaandmon Croft — to streamline the pilot process so other departments could quickly work with material amassed between takes that could start and restart from various points in a song.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Once your body fat decreases, strengthening your abs with exercises like planks and crunches will make your body look more defined.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 28 Aug. 2025
But composability also means the failure of one key protocol can rapidly cascade through many others, creating a chain reaction of liquidity crunches or asset collapses.
—Mark R. Weaver, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
McGee led me through moves like Pilates 100s, crunches with rows, and full crunches (with my legs extended).
—Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 17 Oct. 2025
No leverage amplifying losses, no management teams making allocation decisions, no complex redemption mechanisms creating liquidity crunches.
—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2025
During times of stress, sudden retail redemptions could force asset sales at discounts, triggering liquidity crunches and pricing shocks in what have generally been stable markets.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Supply-chain crunches slowed key technologies.
—Justin Worland, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
Colorado policymakers, after several flush years following the pandemic, have faced a series of fiscal crunches over the past year.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Time crunches led the team of four — including production assistant Chaandmon Croft — to streamline the pilot process so other departments could quickly work with material amassed between takes that could start and restart from various points in a song.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Once your body fat decreases, strengthening your abs with exercises like planks and crunches will make your body look more defined.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 28 Aug. 2025
But composability also means the failure of one key protocol can rapidly cascade through many others, creating a chain reaction of liquidity crunches or asset collapses.
—Mark R. Weaver, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
Nguyen Nik Bonitto shoves the Jets' left tackle back into Justin Fields and Zach Allen crunches him from the interior on that third-down floater.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crunches
Noun
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Preparing to vote The Independence School Board voted in 2022 to implement the four-day school week for the 2023-2024 school year, citing teacher shortages.—
Ilana Arougheti
Updated October 30,
Kansas City Star,
30 Oct. 2025
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Strong expectations for earnings from key players such as Samsung and SK Hynix have lifted investor sentiment, fueled further by projections of a supercycle driven by global supply shortages in memory chips.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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Her artwork often carries a strong political message, including criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza since October 7, 2023, and reflections on other crises in the Middle East.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Almost 20 years since Darfur became the epicenter of one of the most devastating humanitarian crises of the 21st century, the region is once again in the grip of violence.—
David Miliband,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Nobody catches it for week, until someone scrapes customer addresses and posts them online.—
Daniel Fusch,
Ascend Agency,
28 Oct. 2025
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Injuries can occur when the person scrapes over the rocks.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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So Vegas has to hope that their forward depth is strong enough to balance out where their star power lacks, relative to other contenders.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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This absence — of God, of love, of plain community spirit — is a metaphor for the whole parish, where everyone is defined by their own lacks and deficiencies, the weaknesses that cause Wicks to despise them and vow to bring down them all.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The timing couldn’t have been better; my life was at a crossroads.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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The war over which side gets to run the resource-rich nation that sits at the vital crossroads between North Africa, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea has not been happening in a vacuum.—
NPR,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Eyes not on the sides of their heads, and a quick, macular gaze that isn’t like other animals’.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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His $193 million executive compensation, which turned the heads of unpaid moderators last year, included a $550,000 annual salary, with the rest tied up in stock.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Crunches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crunches. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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