crunch
verb (used with object)
to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
crunching
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present participleof crunch.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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But after a year protecting Joe Flacco, Urschel started to miss his life crunching numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Large language models are the technology that underpins chatbots and other AI tools by crunching vast amounts of digital data.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
But after four memorable shootouts in the last 32 and last 16, we thought it was worth crunching the numbers once again.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
His campaign didn’t survive, but those problems—tens of thousands of people without housing, costs crunching millions of people with housing, and lagging crisis response—are real.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
Then we stepped out into the moonlit farmyard to fetch Marlene from the barn, the snow crisp and crunching under our feet.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
