Meaning & use
Crunching
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Crushing or grinding something noisily, especially with the teeth or underfoot; also used figuratively for processing large amounts of data.
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The dog was crunching happily on a bone in the yard.
The analysts spent all night crunching the sales numbers.
A note on using this word
In tech and finance contexts, "crunching numbers" or "crunching data" figuratively describes intensive calculation.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Processing or calculating large quantities of data or figures.
The software crunches millions of records in seconds.
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