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  1. sneak in, creep inverb

    enter surreptitiously

    "He sneaked in under cover of darkness"; "In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in"

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  1. creep in

    "Creep in," often referred to as "creeping in" in scientific and technical terms, is a phenomenon whereby a gradual, slow, and almost unnoticeable change or distortion occurs in a material or system over time due to constant stress, pressure, or high temperature. It includes deformation, alterations, or shifts that occur at a steady rate and could result in functional issues or failure over a prolonged period.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of creep in in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of creep in in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of creep in in a Sentence

  1. Mike Conley:

    I think we’re all kind of prepared for it to creep in because it’s everywhere. And right now, it’s on all of us to be responsible and try to practice our social distancing, and we’ve got new requirements from the league in order to help with that around our locker rooms and in public. So just trying to try to wear a mask and do our best to not catch it.

  2. John Adams:

    It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

  3. Yokie Johnson:

    When we opened for the first time after the flood, it started just dead. And you start to have that sense of dread creep in. Did I do all this, did I sink all this money in, have I started this business and people can't even get here anymore?

  4. Trent Yawney:

    Even the third period against the Islanders, I could see it start to creep in a little bit, and we knew it was around the corner, i didn’t know if it was going to be tonight, but it was coming, because we were getting away with some things that we weren’t getting away with earlier, but you end up with a win. Now we've just got to reset again and start all over.

  5. Amy Walter:

    We're seeing a touch of optimism creep in, in terms of voters' opinions about the economy, it's not going to turn around overnight. But at least if the trend line is going in the right way, that's good for Democrats. The more Donald Trump is in the spotlight, that's also good for Democrats.


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