as in nerve
shameless boldness
the grandchildren had the crust to ask for more money after wasting the first handout
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Recent Examples of crust
John Tuohy, IndyStar, 11 July 2025
Remove from oven, break the crust into pieces and gently press into the apples.
10.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025
Scrub the crust off the pot, then replant into fresh potting mix (not planting mix, dirt, peat moss, etc.).
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
Spoon sauce mixture over crust in skillet, leaving a 1/2-inch border around edge.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 3 July 2025
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Noun
The online response from those who have gotten a pizza has been overwhelmingly positive — especially from Chicago transplants ostensibly on a never-ending quest for the perfect thin crust.
—John Tuohy, IndyStar, 11 July 2025
Remove from oven, break the crust into pieces and gently press into the apples.
10.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025
Scrub the crust off the pot, then replant into fresh potting mix (not planting mix, dirt, peat moss, etc.).
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
Spoon sauce mixture over crust in skillet, leaving a 1/2-inch border around edge.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crust
Noun
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Medrano, according to the suit, went to a doctor after her arrest and was diagnosed with a nerve compression injury in her left wrist and thumb because of the zip ties.—
Lily Kepner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The speech, seen as a rebuke of the steroid era, struck a nerve because Sandberg was never a big talker.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
29 July 2025
Verb
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My hair had grown; it would have been ragged, windswept, caked with sea grime.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 July 2025
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Officers tended to wave shiny new Packards through their checkpoints but halted sputtering early-model Fords pulling makeshift trailers and caked with half a continent’s dust.—
Olatunji Osho-Williams,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 July 2025
Noun
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People were essentially imprisoned in their homes, yet Newsom had the gall to dine mask-free at French Laundry with lobbyists.—
Houman Hemmati,
Oc Register,
20 July 2025
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And for all this some institutions have the gall to charge undergraduates upwards of $100,000 a year!—
Adrian Wooldridge,
Twin Cities,
6 May 2025
Verb
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The response of the Zelensky Administration to smear anti-corruption probes as Russian propaganda is misguided and self-defeating, as many within Ukraine point out.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
24 July 2025
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My hands smeared in gore, eyes alight with frenzied ecstasy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
Noun
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The sweeping track was inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2014 collection Men Explain Things to Me, with the titular essay providing a scathing look at male arrogance and how conversations between men and women go awry.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 2025
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But nothing in his tenure captures all at once the sense of arrogance, tone-deafness to the concerns of Floridians and obsession with keeping secrets.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2025
Verb
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Except there’s a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, and coated in a puzzle.—
Irina Ivanova,
Fortune,
13 July 2025
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Chicken and waffles are also popular, and one waffle menu item comes coated in Fruity Pebbles breakfast cereal.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
Noun
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At the end of that protest day, at least 1,900 bottles of water were available for the students, Webb said, and two tables were stacked high with Doritos, apple sauce and snacks donated by volunteers from the church and community.—
Lily Kepner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The menu includes drunken noodles with Chinese broccoli, peppers, onions and Thai basil in soy sauce; lo mein, with egg noodles, cabbage and vegetables in XO sauce, and rice dishes such as General Tso's chicken and sweet-and-sour chicken.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
30 July 2025
Verb
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High ceilings stretched above me, encrusted with mouldings of flowers and faces, while garlands, angels, and Ionic columns flocked the dirty, peeling walls.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
12 Mar. 2025
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His Lifestyle Flyback Chronograph RM 72-01 is encrusted with diamonds set in white gold and features a green rubber strap.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Crust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crust. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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