creeper
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In the past few weeks, flowers, messages and cuddly toys have grown like a creeper on the chain link fence at the entrance of Old Timers town camp in Australia's Northern Territory.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
I don’t want to sound like a creeper, but I’ve seen your own mother’s Instagram page for you, and that woman loves you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Kittelberger photographed the pictured 'Akikiki, also called Kauai's creeper, in the Alaka'i Wilderness Preserve in 2022, when it was believed around 70 or so remained in the wild; today, only one individual remains.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
Native to North America, they also eat small berries from our native plants such as Virginia creeper.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
I’m not asking, because I don’t want to be a creeper.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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The vine puts out long creepers that since ancient times have been trained upward between poplar trees.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
He teamed it with a silver neck chain and earring plus white brothel creepers for extra height.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2022
Plot twist: Vegas has been overrun by zombies— not the shambling, mindless creepers from The Walking Dead, mind you; these zombies are organized and smart.
From The Verge ● Apr. 18, 2021
And because it came from Rihanna’s brain herself, you couldn’t get a pair of those creepers if you tried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
The Elgon forest towered around their campsite, a web of gnarled African olive trees hung with moss and creepers and dotted with a black olive that is poisonous to humans.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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