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- verb Present participle of
breadcrumb .
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Examples
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This “breadcrumbing” ensures that when your level is appropriate, the denizens of Azeroth move you along to another area.
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Brush over each one with beaten egg, and roll it in bread-crumbs; repeat the egging and breadcrumbing a second time, and, if possible, leave them for an hour for the crumbs to dry on.
American Cookery November, 1921 Various 1892
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For years I avoided breadcrumbing because of its fast-food connotations.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Bee Wilson 2012
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Using local and business directories for breadcrumbing
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2009
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I speak with many small and large business owners all over the world, and one common thread emerges: those that are web-savvy are using these sites to list their businesses to execute a breadcrumbing strategy.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2009
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.. talked about my love for game holidays, for good quest breadcrumbing, and even for some of the design components of D&D Online.
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Breadcrumbing Sending flirty texts to keep someone around or string them along with little to no intention to seriously date them. It's like ghosting but with some extra stab wounds.
Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam Laura Roman 2018
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According to Ofcom’s Online Nation Report for 2022, one in 10 adults in the UK use an online dating service, most of those aged 25-34 – which is the demographic most likely to deal with ghosting and breadcrumbing (sending out flirtatious, but non-committal signals to lure a partner) on top of wider issues such as cheating, gaslighting and worse.
‘The group reminded me I wasn’t crazy’: unmasking the worst dating offenders Emma Garland 2023
vendingmachine commented on the word breadcrumbing
A dating term that refers to leading someone on with no intention of getting serious.
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word breadcrumbing
Recently spotted this on twitter as doing the bare minimum to keep a relationship going.
September 20, 2022