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Recent Examples of crackles
Filmed entirely with iPhone 5S cameras, Tangerine crackles with immediacy and authenticity.
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
At the tip of a private peninsula in North Falmouth, the waterfront estate at 40 Point Road feels like the kind of place made for gatherings — where the fire crackles, champagne flutes catch the winter light, and the view stretches endlessly across the bay.
—Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Pluribus crackles with terrific comic tension as Carol wakes up next to her dead partner, filled with grief yet spoiling for a fight.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
Gunfire crackles and screams echo through Eeka McLeod’s home in Phoenix, Arizona.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crackles
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If steam bubbles and hisses out of the end grain as the firewood heats up on the fire, the wood is wet or green and needs to be seasoned longer before burning.—
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Even Super Dog makes an appearance — cape, mask and all — ready to leap into action the moment a snack bag rustles.—
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Meanwhile, hikers trace goat paths to the secluded Tatevi Anapat Hermitage, where wind rustles through fig trees and the only sound is the echo of footfalls on ancient stone.—
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Usually, when a musician pops up on Jeopardy!—
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The same story pops up over and over again when automation occurs.—
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That's why, for weeks, Browns fans, analysts, and even local radio hosts have pressed Cleveland to give Sanders more playing time as the offense sputters under Dillon Gabriel.—
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And can Justin Herbert rev up an offense that sputters in the red zone while likely missing LT Joe Alt to an ankle injury?—
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“Crackles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crackles. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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