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Recent Examples of creak
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
The chapel was so old that creaks shuttered across the floor like lightning.
—Nicolette Polek, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Emma Loewe, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2025
Making no effort to conceal the creaking obviousness of the sets—the site of a locomotive crash, a veranda overlooking a beautiful garden—Gomes revels in a blatant Old Hollywood artifice.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Gracey gets an astonishing amount across in the details: the goofy creak of a leather jumpsuit, a camera angle tilted to show the utterly unspectacular pulley system that yanked Williams upside-down in front of a crowd of 125,000.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
The chapel was so old that creaks shuttered across the floor like lightning.
—Nicolette Polek, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Verb
My eyelids were heavy, my hips were creaking in protest, and my legs were no longer useful.
—Emma Loewe, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2025
Making no effort to conceal the creaking obviousness of the sets—the site of a locomotive crash, a veranda overlooking a beautiful garden—Gomes revels in a blatant Old Hollywood artifice.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creak
Noun
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Many organisations are using the EU’s framework globally as a benchmark rather than creating their own from scratch.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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And so Blomfield, who knows how to code, also tried his hand at vibe coding — both to rejig his blog and to create from scratch a website called Recipe Ninja.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
30 May 2025
Verb
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The Friday night crowd at Target Field groaned once Koss’ line drive found grass, then showered Paddack with applause for his efforts.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
9 May 2025
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Broken skybridge Elsewhere across the Southeast Asian megacity, glitzy glass-and-steel buildings home to expensive real estate swayed and groaned when the quake hit, showering dust onto the ground.—
Will Ripley,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Indiana let their foot off the gas down the stretch, and New York was able to do just enough to squeak out the victory.—
Matt Levine,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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On Capitol Hill, the president's big, beautiful bill squeaks through the House.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
25 May 2025
Noun
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Currently, the beaches of Torrey Pines are crowded with photographers hoping for that perfect picture of peregrine falcon chicks being raised in crude scrape nests placed on precarious perches, high on the sandstone cliffs.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Injuries suffered by the officers included a groin injury, an ankle strain or stress fracture, a chest contusion, scrapes and bruising.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
22 May 2025
Verb
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Rangers down on the flight line, standing tall and looking fine, the engines and turbines are starting to whine, so early in the morning.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 May 2025
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During the sweet clip, the rescue puppy named Penelope can be seen whining and trying her best to crawl along the bed toward the cat, Monroe.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 May 2025
Verb
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And the first scene with a huge audience that’s crackling with electricity.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
1 June 2025
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The smile crackles through Junior Adams’ retellings of the glory days in Eugene, Ore., of the quarterback who saw the game a move ahead of the headsets on his own Duck sideline.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Using a rasp grater such as a Microplane, finely zest the lemon into the bowl and gently toss the ingredients to combine.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2025
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The engine rasps and rumbles right up to the tachometer’s 7,000-rpm redline—and beyond, in fact, since peak power arrives at 7,500 rpm.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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There’s no point moaning without offering some kind of solution.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Erik Windsor said fire crews removed a manhole cover in the general area of the storm drain opening, inserted a powerful listening device and heard moaning.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Creak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creak. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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