crispen
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of crispen
Example Sentences
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She said she and her husband, Crispen, had started to look into surrogacy when, unexpectedly, she fell pregnant.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2024
ColumbiaForest Products, which declined an interview for this report, would not say whether Crispen was working alone when he died.
From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2017
"AMCU understands that mechanization can undermine its collective power," said Crispen Chinguno, a researcher at the sociology department of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand and an expert on the union.
From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2014
Crispen also noticed some loose dirt next to the potato that “just didn’t look right.”
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2013
Sifma elected not to issue the statement “because the settlement surrounds potential legal issues involving the commercial interests of many of our members,” said Cheryl Crispen, a spokeswoman for the group in New York.
From BusinessWeek • Feb. 3, 2012
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