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Example sentences for: crunch

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The LAT says Russia may see yet another Cabinet shake-up as it faces a cash crunch in April, when it's scheduled to begin making $4.
These failures frightened investors, whose attempts to pull their money out led to more bank failures; the desperate attempts of surviving banks to raise cash caused both a credit crunch (pushing many businesses that had seemed financially sound only months before over the brink) and plunging stock prices, bankrupting still more financial houses.
A front-page NYT effort illustrates the military's current personnel crunch via the situation aboard the Navy's newest ship, the $4.
In playgrounds across America, young basketball players eschew team play in favor of taking on defenders one-on-one, dunking, and "taking over the game" in crunch time, because they want to "be like Mike," as the advertisements say.
The petitioners have a good idea, and not just because it might cost Downing (and maybe even Mark "Captain Crunch" Willes, the Times Mirror chief whose talk of more cooperation between the business and news departments of the newspaper probably led to this fiasco) their jobs.