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In April, Johnson saw that bricks around his home’s crawl space were torn out, and the wooden frame covering the crawl space was broken.

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They’ve been doing covert “crawls” with the goal of locating and destroying Vecna before he turns the town, then the world, into an oozy wasteland.

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Every year, sea turtles emerge from nests on Florida's beaches and begin the difficult crawl from the sand to the sea -- a journey that plays a major role in whether they survive.

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“Those corridors fill up with smoke, so now you’re having to do a fireman crawl along the floor for potentially hundreds of feet,” he said.

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Last week, I stood on a Chicago street corner in a blinding snowstorm and watched a homeless man crawl inside a big wooden box on wheels.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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