as in brittle
having a texture that readily breaks into little pieces under pressure
a crumbly shortbread cookie
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Carrot cake gets a crumbly, buttery makeover in this clever twist on two classics: spiced shortbread and everyone’s favorite springtime dessert.
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Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2025
Using a pastry blender or two forks, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
There is marine sand and sediment, river wash, and alluvium, with pockets of soft, crumbly earth and clay.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Using a fork, cut in butter until flour mixture is crumbly.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2025
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Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2025
Using a pastry blender or two forks, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
There is marine sand and sediment, river wash, and alluvium, with pockets of soft, crumbly earth and clay.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Using a fork, cut in butter until flour mixture is crumbly.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
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Whether your hair is naturally dry or parched from excessive color treatments and heat styling, brittle strands are a stubborn bummer.—
Annie Blackman,
Glamour,
14 July 2025
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Models that aren’t trained that way—like early LLMs trained mainly with vanilla imitation learning—tend to be brittle and error-prone.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 July 2025
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The new driver display is crisp and easy to see, a head up display delivers all the key data points right in your field of vision and chrome buttons that surround the inner portion of the steering wheel can be tapped for things like adaptive cruise control and or to activate Spirit assistance.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Its off-axis viewing is just OK, but its mini LED backlight does a good job of creating crisp images and deep blacks.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
12 July 2025
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“Crumbly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crumbly. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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