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
How many of each new cream puff flavor will be available?
Only 1,921 of the specialty cream puff flavors will be available each day, the news release said.
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Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
This restaurant will more prominently feature bakery items, with a takeaway counter for onigiri, yuzu cream puffs, and egg sandwiches, according to Horii.
—Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
They’re made from a French pâte à choux—the same batter used to make eclairs and cream puffs—which was likely introduced to Italy by French chefs who worked in the Italian royal kitchens.
—Cindy Salvato, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025
The dessert highlighted cream puffs and tres leches cake.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
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Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
This restaurant will more prominently feature bakery items, with a takeaway counter for onigiri, yuzu cream puffs, and egg sandwiches, according to Horii.
—Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
They’re made from a French pâte à choux—the same batter used to make eclairs and cream puffs—which was likely introduced to Italy by French chefs who worked in the Italian royal kitchens.
—Cindy Salvato, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025
The dessert highlighted cream puffs and tres leches cake.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cream puff
Noun
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Sand, breeze blocks, storm shutters—these are materials of survival and exclusion, shaped by the hurricanes that regularly devastate her homeland.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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Tyrone Taylor clobbered a fly ball that seemed like a no-doubter off the bat before dying in a stiff breeze at the left-field warning track.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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Ranger Alec Campbell, 38, was on the Neshaminy Creek near the picnic area when his boat capsized in fast moving water May 23 near a stone dam.—
JD Mullane,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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The park offers picnic areas, a playground and beaches.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
29 May 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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Rather than give the man his spare change, Raymond bought him a cup of duck soup.—
Dave Birkett,
Detroit Free Press,
12 Aug. 2021
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Enjoy making this fluffy, delicious cake year-round by keeping some blueberries in your freezer.—
Mary Alice Russell,
Southern Living,
31 May 2025
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Gumba’s: Three-course meals offered for $40 include appetizer (soup, salad, side), dessert (cannoli, cheesecake, flan, chocolate cake) and a lunch-size entree of Meat Lasagna, Tilapia over Spaghetti, Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo, Cajun Linguine Chicken or other pasta/pizza choice.—
Linda Zavoral,
Mercury News,
30 May 2025
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Physicist Matthew von Hippel looks not at the birth of the universe but at its destruction, outlining a disastrous world-ending scenario that makes asteroid strikes and Earth-colliding black holes look like kid stuff.—
Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
20 May 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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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 5 Jun. 2025.
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