crawl
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Aurora told staff: “Oh yeah, bugs just crawl on me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
It comes six months after the golfer rolled his Land Rover in Florida and had to crawl out of the passenger door of the car.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
One approach being tested involves robots that can crawl across the seafloor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Yet on Friday, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield’s rapid move toward the crucial 5% threshold suddenly slowed to a crawl.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
When she bent her arms and began to crawl again, her head stayed above water.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
While Kumar’s book crawls on average draw about 20 attendees each, she said the community that’s formed around them is much larger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
OpenAI crawls the web with bots to build an index for ChatGPT, just like Google does.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Residents across the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales have been waiting anxiously as Cyclone Alfred crawls towards them, leaving thousands in the dark.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
Moss covers their shoulders and crawls up their bark cheeks.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
On Saturday, it will be 45 days since an olive ridley sea turtle crawled out of the surf and deposited a clutch of eggs near the Surfside community in Seal Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
With her pain getting worse, she "crawled into the doctors on my hands and knees" in May, asking for the coil to be removed.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
A woman was close by talking to him, she said, before "he jumped in and crawled in front of the tiger, where the tiger was perched and just lay there".
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The hiker crawled through the night, down the remainder of Avalanche Gulch to Horse Camp Cabin, at one point removing his boots due to painful swelling, the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
They all jumped back as a red snake crawled between their feet and vanished into a hole in the dry ground.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Imagine looking at the mirror and seeing ants crawling all over the lower part of your face.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
“I’ll have to come crawling back to the traditional entertainment industry, hoping that I still have a place there,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
She spent the next two days crawling on her hands and knees, she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
“Staff reported that there was a male adult creeping and crawling around the aisles,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Other inhabitants use silence for cover—the lizards crawling on dead trees, the hordes of gnats hovering above our heads, and the worms wiggling in and out of the muddy swamp floor.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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