crab
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Earlier this week, Anthropic hosted a limited giveaway of “Clawd” plushies and stickers — a reference to the pixelated crab logo featured in the Claude Code terminal tool.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
His “triple-deluxe” version adds real shrimp, crab and seafood broth, turning the instant noodles into something special without making them much harder to cook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The grill leans into comfort foods and Americana with crab cakes, spinach artichoke dip, a Lucas-favorite chopped salad, jumbo-prawn cocktails, mac and cheese, and pigs in a blanket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
I tried Kumamoto oysters here as part of a sprawling seafood tower — alongside snow crab, lobster tails, tuna tartare with seaweed salad and more — and they immediately became my new favorite variety.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“I've got crab pots set down by the dock,” their grandmother said.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
This is a crabbed and mendacious interpretation of the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
She also shaved her head — all to add authenticity as her queen evolved from youth to crabbed old age.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
The real issue raised by this new crabbed system of historical reasoning is the intellectual stance, temperament, and habits lawyers, judges, and legislators should bring to the task of historical, analogical reasoning.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2023
But it is quite another for the judiciary to apply that same crabbed conception to speech beyond the school setting.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021
His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
The transmission malfunctioned in his 1978 boat, Miss Julie, which he also uses for crabbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A fundraiser set up in Meadows’ name described the deckhand from Montesano, Wash., as a father to “three amazing little boys” who died “while doing what he loved — crabbing out on Alaskan waters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
You've probably seen those videos of passenger planes "crabbing" and landing almost sideways in strong winds.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
The earliest that commercial crabbing could begin in the far north would be Dec. 16, state officials said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
I figured Carl was going to give me grief about not crabbing this summer and all those pots going to waste settin’ there by the shed.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
