Word: creep
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many people suggested I make one,” Frommer laughed. “I was going to make one to wear today. But Cate Edwards thinks I’m a creep after the Edwards one,” referring to the vice-presidential candidate’s daughter, a recent Princeton graduate...
Hyman calls this shift “mission creep...
...Bureau had its mission increased,” Hyman said. “It sort of started to creep to help people who had more and more serious illness...
...Finally, she started moving--first by joining a swimming pool, then walking, hiking, biking, even surfing for a while. To this day, she limits what she eats, exercises at least an hour a day and steps on the bathroom scales every morning to make sure her weight doesn't creep back...
School is over. Commencement has yet to begin. Events with names like “Champagne Brunch” and “Booze Cruise” creep up. And after four years of succeeding on grit and grind, Harvard’s stately elders learn, for once, how to do nothing useful...