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language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense that whole thing about how surprised she was to win the award was a crock
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Recent Examples of crock
Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 15 Mar. 2026 Cook your shrimp and bell peppers first, then remove them from the crock pot to cook the pasta in a rich stock. —Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
Beren Cross, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking. —Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for crock
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Temperatures in the cockpits reportedly hit 140 degrees, transforming sleek miracles of automotive technology into 180-mph crock pots. —Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 15 Mar. 2026 Cook your shrimp and bell peppers first, then remove them from the crock pot to cook the pasta in a rich stock. —Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
But which No 9 good enough to lead a Premier League promotion chase is going to come to Leeds this month and sit on the bench waiting for the Dutchman to get crocked? Farke has mentioned Gnonto as an emergency striker option, if needed. —Beren Cross, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking. —Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for crock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crock
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For example, the EV mandate would be imposed on a company like Waste Management which pays the local government a franchise fee for the exclusive right to provide garbage collection services to all the residents.— Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 18 Apr. 2026
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But the temporary solution for many buildings is asking residents to fill in as volunteer cleaners, garbage schleppers, and greeters.— Anne Kadet, Curbed, 17 Apr. 2026
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This rug can stand up to all your pets’ messes with its durable fibers that are easy to spot-clean.— Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
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The Rock Hall just messed this one up.— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026
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This is why all the whining and complaining from small market teams across the sport is manipulative nonsense.— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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Or from whatever this risibly self-serious metaphysical nonsense about performance and possession, creation and exorcism, aims to be.— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.— Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
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According to registered dietitians, a mix of nuts, especially pistachios, and dried tart cherries is the healthiest late-night snack.— Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 19 Apr. 2026
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Many whole foods are naturally gluten-free, including fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
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The experiences are jumbled in my mind, and the Stations become a story told over many single-frame images, just like any comic book.— Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
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But there are just a half-dozen or so teams to have jumbled their top three spots in the order as much as the Padres and/or used six players at any spot.— Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
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Mulhouse Public Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz speaks to the press after a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.— CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
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Stony rubbish, dead trees, the odd corpse in the garden—nothing that couldn’t be absorbed back into the earth.— Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
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But somewhere along the way the message of gratitude and goodwill got muddled.— Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
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Quite possibly the easiest way to try this trend is to muddle herbs into your favorite drink recipes.— Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Crock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/crock. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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