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Recent Examples of crease
Jason Cooke, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
Binnington’s crease Reports of Canada’s goaltending crisis may have been overstated.
—Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Clint Davis, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
But as a teenager, Richard’s brow is creased into a deep furrow.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The senior captain one-timed a cross crease feed from Pumphret to place Winthrop back into the driver’s seat.
—Jason Cooke, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
Binnington’s crease Reports of Canada’s goaltending crisis may have been overstated.
—Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
Both have a straight-leg silhouette that’s roomy all the way down and creases that elevate them from the slouchier vibe given by many palazzo pants.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
But as a teenager, Richard’s brow is creased into a deep furrow.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crease
Noun
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Eyes dart, brows furrow, and Holliday lets slip a slight grin, before skinning that smoke wagon and firing one shot into Ringo’s forehead.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2025
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Where there once were homes and gardens was now a wide furrow of dirt, as if a giant had swiped his foot across it.—
Eduardo Medina,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Ike Barinholtz’s Sal Saperstein listens with his eyebrows up, his forehead wrinkled into a semi-permanent state of worry.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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Over millions of years, rain, flash floods, sandstorms and earthquakes have scoured and wrinkled the soft sandstone into the maze-like badlands.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
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“Crease.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crease. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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