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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Plus, use our hack for placing tinsel on your tree to make next year's cleanup a breeze.Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Dec. 2024
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In some areas, this glass can be opened when the weather is suitable, letting in the breeze, while in other areas, the lower sections of the glass panels, under the waterline, have gaps to allow the water to flow indoors.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
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And, finally, the once-daily Changi Precinct Tour (10 a.m.) focuses on the hidden gems of the residential town just outside the airport, with 30-minute stopovers in Tampines Central Park and Changi Beach Park, a sandy spot for picnics and plane-spotting.Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 17 Dec. 2024
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Cast a line off the fishing pier, launch a canoe, or pack a picnic to enjoy under a pavilion.Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2024
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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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Some people use it as a sauce for a cake, and in that case, it can be served warm or room temperature.Renu Dhar, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2024
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The same kind of random as Swift putting two fingers into a red velvet cake to make parallel lines for a double album that might have been 26 tracks but instead was 31.Bryan West, The Tennessean, 19 Dec. 2024
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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 2 Jan. 2025.
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