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as in crumples
to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in
scrunched up the shirt and tossed it in the laundry
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Recent Examples of scrunches
Four exercises, including the toe scrunches, to help improve balance.
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Lindsey Leake,
NBC news,
29 Apr. 2026
The clear formula is lightweight but substantial enough to create a cast that scrunches out softly, leaving hair touchable instead of stiff.
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Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
30 Sep. 2025
Hiddleston scrunches his eyes a bit at the statement.
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Stylecaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
22 Aug. 2025
Her nose scrunches up like something smells bad in here.
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Nicola Dall'asen,
Allure,
19 Aug. 2025
Lindsey Leake,
NBC news,
29 Apr. 2026
The clear formula is lightweight but substantial enough to create a cast that scrunches out softly, leaving hair touchable instead of stiff.
—
Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
30 Sep. 2025
Hiddleston scrunches his eyes a bit at the statement.
—
Stylecaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
22 Aug. 2025
Her nose scrunches up like something smells bad in here.
—
Nicola Dall'asen,
Allure,
19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrunches
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My now-husband and I were newly a couple and still working out the kinks and crumples in an evolving relationship.
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The man crumples to the ground while the officer turns to walk away as the other officers stand by.
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But then a heavy beat drops, and the figure crouches down into a duckwalk, moving across the walkway in a low bounce before springing up with the circling arm movements of voguing.
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At the other end of the pitch, Robert Lewandowski crouches down on his haunches, eyes looking everywhere and nowhere, their nothingness saying everything.
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Her older brother, 9-year-old Charlie, climbs across the nearby jungle gym at a Prairie Village playground as her younger brother, 3-year-old Will, scrapes a stick through the mulch.
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Every texture is an independent agent with its own membrane in the mix; percussion rubs and scrapes against your attention, while mutating synth patches burble in the periphery.
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For makeup that tends to crease or settle into fine lines, the challenge is finding a powder that sets without collecting where skin naturally folds.
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Goddard is a wheelchair user and worries about what will be available for her if her institution folds.
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Then the coach known as the most impulsive man on an NFL sideline runs that stop sign, grits his teeth and breaks unbound into character.
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Each month, Edward Flores crunches the numbers.
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Energage administers an employee survey that covers 26 factors and then crunches the feedback data and scores companies based on the responses.
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“Scrunches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrunches. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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