crawl
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Zollinger’s patrol partner slid into the crawl space after the suspected intruder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Today, rows of giant African snails crawl inside wooden pens in Adjoa, a coastal community where fishing families are testing the new source of income.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
He added that if folks visit at least more than one independent bookstore, that counts as a crawl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Compared with brachiopods, bivalves have greater energy demands because of their larger bodies and muscular "foot" that allows them to burrow and crawl.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The next few weeks seemed to crawl by.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
She climbs, she crawls, she leaps, she runs like the Santa Ana wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
Now, Santa-themed bar crawls and office holiday parties are outfitted with holiday-themed sweaters and sweatshirts, bringing the same energy as someone loudly interrupting a conversation to tell a lewd joke.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
That’s when Dylan crawls out from under my bed.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
“Well, we didn’t walk out of it. We crawled out of it, but we did get out of it alive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Since then, wages for 25-year-olds have crawled back up, almost to the point they were 20 years ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Roa and his companions initially crawled and then cut a hole to reach the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
On and on it went, a remix of the pessimism that has crawled around this program for a generation plus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
I just groaned and crawled way down under the covers.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Social media platforms and message boards are crawling with asks for reliable weather app recommendations, and the answers can vary wildly.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
FOXBOROUGH, Mass.—France and Morocco were about to take the field, and Emily Austin was still crawling through traffic toward Gillette Stadium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
One MP says Parliament has had a "strange atmosphere all week, with people crawling over each other to try to get to him".
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Every few centuries, some charlatan, some crawling, vicious soul, would try to get close to the Glimourie Tree—to steal it, to take it for their own.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
