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Joe Drape, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
The feeder crumpled beneath the weight of the whitetail, and both animals fled the scene before the video cut out.
—Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
The Silverado punches deep into the car's right rear flank, crumpling the bumper into the trunk, popping the wheel from the right-rear well, and twisting the C-pillar like a licorice stick.
—Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
The lasting image of Hudson’s 2022 season was of the pitcher crumpled in a heap on the Truist Park mound, his left knee writhing in pain.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
Kim redirected, doing a half-barrel roll toward the outside of the plate, crumpling on his shoulder in the process.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
Emergency alert systems that crumple when needed most.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
Soon everywhere the hair was lank, the poses crumpled and morose, and the Azzedine dresses and bouclé suits traded in for flannels and peasant frocks.
—Sally Singer, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2023
But sometimes she’d be caught, and her creations would be crumpled up and thrown away.
—Dana Hedgpeth, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
Time, 12 July 2023
In the Koroyd zones of the helmet, tiny tubes crumple upon impact to disperse and absorb energy.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2023
The crumple of a man unfolding a newspaper, and a pencil scribbling the answers to a crossword puzzle.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 20 May 2022
Along the Gulf Coast, this is largely due to the extraction of oil and water, which makes the ground crumple like an empty plastic bottle.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
The man was outside, on a mobile, his voice dipping in and out amid the ambient scratch and crumple of the elements.
—Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
Then came Osaka, a winner of the U.S. and Australian opens, acknowledging that athletes can publicly share vulnerability and truths about the types of pressure that would cause most to crumple.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021
The frenetic music in the background, the melodramatic slaps, Sarah Jane’s slow crumple to the asphalt.
—New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
Just like seat belts, crumple-zones and airbags increase the odds of surviving an accident, masks, physical distancing (and common sense) will lower the risk of catching this virus.
—Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
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Word History
Verb
Middle English crumplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Crumple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crumple. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.
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