as in breeze
something easily done or dealt with
everyone thinks tonight's game will be a cream puff, and so it hasn't generated a lot of interest
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Recent Examples of cream puff
According to Evers' proclamation, it's estimated that 50 to 60 cream puffs are purchased each minute at the fair, bringing the total to 400,000 cream puffs consumed each year.
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Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
Pastries include classic eclair, cinnamon rolls, key lime cream puffs, and fruit tart.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
Éclair and Artistic Gymnastics Similar to cream puffs, éclairs are based on choux pastry.
—Cece Pascual, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Each day of the fair, golden tickets will be awarded to three people who purchased specialty cream puffs, according to the release.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
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Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
Pastries include classic eclair, cinnamon rolls, key lime cream puffs, and fruit tart.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
Éclair and Artistic Gymnastics Similar to cream puffs, éclairs are based on choux pastry.
—Cece Pascual, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Each day of the fair, golden tickets will be awarded to three people who purchased specialty cream puffs, according to the release.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cream puff
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The wind mode, however, adjusts to the breeze and neutralizes the crackle.PCMAG, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
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Yet, a rare recent cold snap has seen residents of the kingdom’s capital throwing on extra layers and enjoying the cool winter breeze.Jay Ganglani, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
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The picnic area, which has tables, grills, and bathrooms, overlooks the ocean and is especially lovely.Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 17 Jan. 2025
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Park district taking rental applications for spring season The Naperville Park District is now accepting park rental applications from residents wanting to rent pavilions or picnic areas between April 1 and May 31.Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
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For Marx, making the transition from actress to wife of a great movie star was duck soup.Donald Liebenson, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
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By comparison, Adare's most recent renovation— completed this spring after two years of construction—was duck soup.Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
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During Christmas, these culprits were in abundance, but cakes, bread and booze weren't the only things to blame.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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The same goes for frozen meals, casseroles, soups, stews and cakes, pies and pastries with custard or cheese fillings.Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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At 21, Jovic, too, arguably remains part of the kid stuff, only at the end of last season having emerged as a rotation presence.Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2024
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But that was kid stuff compared to the adult heartbreak of her stunning new album, The Tortured Poets Department.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2024
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My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Dec. 2024
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The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
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“Cream puff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cream%20puff. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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