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- noun Plural form of
crush . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
crush .
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Examples
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Data Domain crushes the Quantum solution in a “bake-off”.
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My boys are grown now but the memory of their tender crushes is vivid.
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(Including Adrienne Jones's top 5 inappropriate childhood crushes from the world of science fiction).
August 2008 2008
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(Including Adrienne Jones's top 5 inappropriate childhood crushes from the world of science fiction).
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It has a lot going for it: gorgeously made, well-acted in some instances (the ghost-princes of Stormhold were great in their roles as comic relief; and Claire Danes, one of my long-term crushes, is wonderful in both her insults and luminosity), well-plotted (if a bit slow at times), good transitions.
stardust jlundberg 2007
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They also copied a picture of the boy I'd liked, whom I'd thought I was identifying for Team Prep's entertainment rather than for public consumption; I was mortified when I started being congratulated on my excellent taste in crushes by members of the media who'd received the packet.
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They also copied a picture of the boy I'd liked, whom I'd thought I was identifying for Team Prep's entertainment rather than for public consumption; I was mortified when I started being congratulated on my excellent taste in crushes by members of the media who'd received the packet.
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All the married women Ella knew had "crushes" -- young men who lounged in every afternoon for tea and cigarettes and gossip, and filled chairs at dinner parties, and formed a background in a theater box.
Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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Stepney, had obtained for him (in return for favours too easily guessed) a card to one of the vast impersonal Van Osburgh "crushes" -- Rosedale, with that mixture of artistic sensibility and business astuteness which characterizes his race, had instantly gravitated toward Miss Bart.
House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1899
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She’s single, explaining that, I tend to live in a series of long-term crushes that I do nothing about, but I’m trying to work on that, along with the other major life-changing I’ve been doing lately.
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