crunch on
phrasal verb
crunched on; crunching on; crunches on
: to chew (a piece of food) in a way that makes a loud sound
She crunched on a carrot while watching TV.
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Buttery, smooth on the inside with a crispy, golden crunch on the outside, they were packed with flavor.
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Tamia Boyd, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2025
Dark gray smoke puffed into the sky behind him as Tiptoe the African sulcata tortoise crunched on the green lawn beneath him.
—Alina Hartounian, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
The Tensor cores drive DLSS 4 frame-generation technology to improve performance at higher resolutions by using AI algorithms crunched on by the Tensor cores to write additional frames, increasing effective frame rates.
—Joe Osborne, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
When presented with two fruit baskets, one with Kamala Harris' name and the other with Trump's name, Moo Deng munched and crunched on the Trump cake.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
The exodus has increased housing demands in neighboring suburbs and put a crunch on infrastructure.
—Meira Gebel, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
That could put a crunch on Americans’ Thanksgiving meal plans in the near future if efforts to sustain cranberry production fall short.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
The best moments in those films use the small and weird gestures — Pippin goofily knocking over a skull in Moria; Denethor crunching on a tomato — as avenues into the eldritch or grandly tragic: the arrival of the Balrog or Gondor’s doomed stand in Osgiliath.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
To really illustrate that, in 2010, a team of researchers from around the globe cracked a 768-bit RSA key after two and a half years of continuous number crunching on hundreds of computers working around the clock.
—Joe Salas, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2024
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Tamia Boyd, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2025
Dark gray smoke puffed into the sky behind him as Tiptoe the African sulcata tortoise crunched on the green lawn beneath him.
—Alina Hartounian, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
The Tensor cores drive DLSS 4 frame-generation technology to improve performance at higher resolutions by using AI algorithms crunched on by the Tensor cores to write additional frames, increasing effective frame rates.
—Joe Osborne, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
When presented with two fruit baskets, one with Kamala Harris' name and the other with Trump's name, Moo Deng munched and crunched on the Trump cake.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
The exodus has increased housing demands in neighboring suburbs and put a crunch on infrastructure.
—Meira Gebel, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
That could put a crunch on Americans’ Thanksgiving meal plans in the near future if efforts to sustain cranberry production fall short.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
The best moments in those films use the small and weird gestures — Pippin goofily knocking over a skull in Moria; Denethor crunching on a tomato — as avenues into the eldritch or grandly tragic: the arrival of the Balrog or Gondor’s doomed stand in Osgiliath.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
To really illustrate that, in 2010, a team of researchers from around the globe cracked a 768-bit RSA key after two and a half years of continuous number crunching on hundreds of computers working around the clock.
—Joe Salas, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Crunch on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crunch%20on. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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