crawl
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If water collects in certain spots, or if your crawl space is consistently damp, consider installing a sump pump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
I rub my hand over my forehead, then crawl inside and sit.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 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
I’m betting on one who crawls through the brush to find answers that it’s only the beginning of something that will take longer than my lifetime to reveal itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
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
A drop of sweat crawls down my neck.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Suki, who had been with her new family only a few weeks, had crawled into an opening in an entertainment center cabinet and could not get out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Then I began to worry that the van would run me over, so I crawled out from underneath and banged on the window.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
That was only reinforced when they crawled through the group stage here with draws in their first two matches against Egypt and Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Roa and his companions initially crawled and then cut a hole to reach the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
And behind him, with a last, desperate effort, crawled Jonn.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
“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
“Staff reported that there was a male adult creeping and crawling around the aisles,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
They want AI agents crawling through messages to have unfettered access to every update on products, earnings and strategic initiatives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"I'm just scared when he gets older, when he starts crawling around, I can't even allow him to crawl in such a place like that because it's so dirty," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Roz carefully crossed the mountaintop, crawling around boulders and leaping over wide cracks in the ground.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
