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crumb

[kruhm] / krʌm /


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My assessment of the results is that the system provides only a crumb in welfare-type benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Its open crumb absorbs just enough sauce to become more flavorful as it sits, while the soft crust remains easy to eat on a towel without showering your lap in shards.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

The 22-year-old now runs his own business scrubbing every sheet metal curve and interior corner of a vehicle until there isn’t a smudge or crumb left.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

The fact she managed to show fight and take the second set into a tie-break was a clear crumb of comfort.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

He is watching me, waiting for me to say something, to offer him some crumb of comfort, but I have none.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

The Union of High School students described the initial announcements last week as "crumbs".

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Next week, I’ll be back with five flexible recipes to keep in your pocket for market day—including the jammy squash pasta with chèvre and cornbread crumbs that started this whole reeducation.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Certainly, I felt a bit like Odysseus as I crept — drained, disoriented and trailing popcorn crumbs like Ithican sand — out into the sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Who does Clarke play up front - and is there any prospect that whoever it is might have more than crumbs to feed on?

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Fact: Companies pump the bag with nitrogen gas to prevent the chips from becoming potato crumbs, proven by my experiment in the third grade.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

But their fried chicken sandwich — made with crumbed chicken schnitzel, tarragon butter, lettuce and housemade pickle mayo on a steamed potato bun — is their bestseller.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025

When dining out, choose plant-based options that are sautéed, grilled, baked, steamed, boiled or poached – instead of those that are crumbed or battered before deep frying.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024

As FTX has crumbed, Mr. Bankman-Fried has been “working constructively with regulators, bankruptcy officials and the company to try to do what’s best for consumers,” he said on Sunday.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

In my Tuscan family, it is only ever prepared one way, as cotolette di agnello fritte: crumbed, deep fried chops squirted with a lemon wedge.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2018

We three were still there around the crumbed table, dizzy with what she’d heard from Upstairs.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Al-Sadr has also been a harsh critic of widespread corruption in the oil-rich country torn by decades of violence, with a crumbing infrastructure, an impoverished majority and lack of basic services.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

Tucked into a hilltop, Pignola is pure Italian charm: crumbing stone buildings and narrow, unnavigable streets.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2018

For four decades, Deshpande has ushered more than 50,000 students into this cramped, derelict building of corrugated metal and crumbing cement.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014

When we got close, Lt Adekunle deployed three men to search the blackened and crumbing building.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2013

A brush is not desirable for "crumbing" the table.

From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer


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