cruncher

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Recent Examples of cruncher Near the end of February, the White House announced that a relatively low-profile health care data cruncher with a passion for simplifying access to electronic medical records had been named DOGE’s acting administrator. Richie Duchon, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2025 The designers and data crunchers of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 operation also had a hand in perfecting INEOS’s 75-foot foiling vessel, as much a flying object as a boat. George Allen, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2024 Another data cruncher, the transportation analytics firm INRIX, found that congestion delays downtown are up 20% from 2022. Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024 Data crunchers will surely spend the next several decades examining all these claims. Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2013 See All Example Sentences for cruncher
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cruncher
Noun
  • Marcelo Mayer stepped into the void left at third base when Alex Bregman went down with a quad injury, making his major league debut, and has hit .222, with an OBP of less than .300.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Wong went far to his left, charging a slow grounder past the mound in the sixth and throwing the batter out, ending up on the right side of the infield.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • He was set to make his debut late last season, but a September knee injury delayed his arrival.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 13 June 2025
  • Hoping for a better season in year three, Brown ended up suffering a knee injury, which required surgery.
    Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • A touch of Cocchi Americano, an aperitif wine, is added to the rest of the ingredients to lend body and balance out a little bit of the kick from the chilis.
    Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Wild Honey was a marvelous return to their trashy rock & roll roots, a 24-minute rush of garage-band kicks.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • The first was a sweeping left-footed finish across goal — his trademark this season — while the second was a tap-in created by his pressing and a quick one-two with Ferran Torres.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • The one-two punch of the tariff court ruling and Nvidia’s earnings beat is putting Wall Street on track for a strong open this morning.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • In the third round of that contest, Davis scored a knockdown via a left to the body.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • So the Zags have a table setter, an elite wing scorer, a couple of old knockdown shooters and two elite post-up guys in Ike and Braden Huff, who will inevitably end up an All-American by the time he’s finished in Spokane.
    CJ Moore, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Many of those bases located in the South were given Confederate names in the middle of the 20th Century, at a time when southern states were still restricting the voting and assembly rights of Black Americans through Jim Crow laws.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 10 June 2025
  • That doesn’t give them the right to commit acts of violence, to intimidate, harass, and threaten other people.
    Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Paris Saint-Germain’s historic 5-0 thrashing of Inter in Saturday’s UEFA Champions League final was a sight to behold — and to viewers either via TV or streaming on either side of the Atlantic, they were treated to quite the range of viewing experiences.
    Pablo Maurer, New York Times, 1 June 2025
  • The former started in the late 2000s and went on to offer a combination of thrashing and head-banging hardcore that bordered on punk.
    Lawrence Burney, Pitchfork, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The 45% hike in the city’s current citywide minimum wage of $17.25 an hour would be a body blow to many employers — and the ongoing trash fee debacle shows no one should trust City Hall to be competent in crafting and executing any major policy.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
  • The big body blow for the ECB, BCCI and cricket’s global appeal has already been delivered with the consecutive retirements of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli earlier in the month.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025

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“Cruncher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cruncher. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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