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Recent Examples of creak
Alessandra Schade, Vogue, 7 June 2025
Metallic Life Review combines the sounds of pots and pans, creaking cemetery gates, metal tape-deck reels, aluminum cans, and many other metals recorded throughout the duo’s history and back to Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt’s childhoods.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2025
The set is a ship’s deck that tilts and creaks ominously while a screen plays eerily textured footage of a roiling ocean.
—Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
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Noun
When the wind blows, there’s a brittle creaking sound as the structure sways.
—Alessandra Schade, Vogue, 7 June 2025
Metallic Life Review combines the sounds of pots and pans, creaking cemetery gates, metal tape-deck reels, aluminum cans, and many other metals recorded throughout the duo’s history and back to Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt’s childhoods.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
My assumption is that most rational human beings would happily stay in a warm and cozy office and simply listen to the building creak and groan under the force of the violent gusts.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2025
The set is a ship’s deck that tilts and creaks ominously while a screen plays eerily textured footage of a roiling ocean.
—Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creak
Noun
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Without this infrastructure, every applications needs to rebuild the plumbing from scratch.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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Order your pizza and, within five minutes, a robot would craft your pie from scratch, no human hands required.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 July 2025
Verb
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Behind the door, Red groaned, then gave himself a self-motivating shout.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Concerns that the Texas power grid, managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), could soon begin to groan under the weight of surging demand, led the Texas Legislature to pass Senate Bill 6 (SB 6) in the 2025 session.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
Verb
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The cords have never needed replacing, the mat hasn’t sagged, and the frame doesn’t squeak—even during more intense workouts.—
Jordan Galloway,
SELF,
15 July 2025
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Taylor faced Serrano for the first time in 2022, and though many observers believed Serrano deserved the decision, especially after badly hurting Taylor midway through, Taylor squeaked out the split decision to become the undisputed lightweight champion.—
Josh Katzowitz,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Long and his team are working on 80 ambulatory locations, a mix that ranges from greenfield projects on raw land to scrapes of older buildings to adaptive reuse, or the repurposing of older buildings.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
5 July 2025
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How to Make Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream Halve 1 whole vanilla bean pod lengthwise; scrape seeds into a large bowl.—
Erin Hooker,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 July 2025
Verb
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Through it all, though, Soto didn’t whine or complain or let the pressure of the contract and expectations and big city bring him down along with his batting average.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
28 June 2025
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Of course, some will whine that endless war and support for atrocities erode America’s values.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 June 2025
Verb
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Fireworks to include crackling crown jellyfish, atomic rings, yellow & green sunbursts, strobing lemon cascades and comet fans.—
Kevin Quinitchett,
USA Today,
4 July 2025
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Directed and co-written by Shane Black, who made a name for himself with other smart-alecky films like the aforementioned Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and 2013's Iron Man 3, the film crackles with wise-guy banter and rich atmosphere.—
Sarah Sprague,
EW.com,
2 July 2025
Noun
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The soulful rasp of his voice bellowed through the open-roof into the Nashville night.—
Bryan West,
The Tennessean,
30 May 2025
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Wallen has abandoned the panting rasp of his mid-twenties, and now performs with force and depth.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
Verb
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Now-tired 2010 fads that Lorde pioneered, including bittersweet tropical-pop textures and moaning vocal snippets, are everywhere.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2025
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After one season, he was forcefully rejected by the community, which moaned to the press (and the local police) that the tranquil pondside inn was becoming a celebrity- and influencer-infested late-night party spot just like his club in the city.—
Brock Colyar,
Curbed,
24 June 2025
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“Creak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creak. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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