as in breeze
something easily done or dealt with
everyone thinks tonight's game will be a cream puff, and so it hasn't generated a lot of interest
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Recent Examples of cream puff
According to Evers' proclamation, it's estimated that 50 to 60 cream puffs are purchased each minute at the fair, bringing the total to 400,000 cream puffs consumed each year.
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Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
Pastries include classic eclair, cinnamon rolls, key lime cream puffs, and fruit tart.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
Éclair and Artistic Gymnastics Similar to cream puffs, éclairs are based on choux pastry.
—Cece Pascual, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Each day of the fair, golden tickets will be awarded to three people who purchased specialty cream puffs, according to the release.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
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Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
Pastries include classic eclair, cinnamon rolls, key lime cream puffs, and fruit tart.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
Éclair and Artistic Gymnastics Similar to cream puffs, éclairs are based on choux pastry.
—Cece Pascual, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Each day of the fair, golden tickets will be awarded to three people who purchased specialty cream puffs, according to the release.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cream puff
Noun
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Usually, the salty breeze brought with it the sounds of baby elephant seals calling to their moms in high pitched yells.—
Gabrielle Emanuel,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
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Reigning world champion Thierry Neuville hit a patch of ice going into one hairpin and ripped the suspension off his car, limping back to the service park with a wheel dangling in the breeze.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And, of course, there are the lakes — Minneapolis alone is home to 22 of them — offering ample opportunities for water activities, sunbathing, picnics, or just strolling along the shoreline.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Jan. 2025
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Preliminary plans discussed for the park include at least four acres of sports fields, about 650 parking spaces to be shared with the nearby arena, along with playgrounds, picnic areas, restrooms, basketball courts, a dog park, and a bandstand.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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For Marx, making the transition from actress to wife of a great movie star was duck soup.—
Donald Liebenson,
Washington Post,
21 July 2022
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By comparison, Adare's most recent renovation— completed this spring after two years of construction—was duck soup.—
Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
4 Apr. 2018
Noun
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That would be a delicious irony — the ultimate cherry atop the revitalization cake.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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In shock, Mama Angel nearly dropped the cake before someone swooped in to save it.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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At 21, Jovic, too, arguably remains part of the kid stuff, only at the end of last season having emerged as a rotation presence.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Sep. 2024
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But that was kid stuff compared to the adult heartbreak of her stunning new album, The Tortured Poets Department.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2024
Noun
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My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.—
Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
16 Dec. 2024
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The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2024
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“Cream puff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cream%20puff. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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