crawl
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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
“This base remains ready to crawl across glass for this guy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
I found myself hesitating outside my own window, suddenly wanting nothing more than to crawl back into my tiny room and pretend none of this was happening.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
And sheer uncertainty abounds over how to handle raw fruits and veggies while this parasite crawls about.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
The percussion on “2 Hard 4 the Radio” bangs and jumps where so much of the record crawls, and his fleet verse recalls the cadence of his 2018 hit “Nice for What.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
Once Malia’s dressed for bed, she crawls into the bottom bunk.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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
“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
Rowan crawled on around the bend, thinking of Star, the most peaceful and loving thing he knew.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
“Staff reported that there was a male adult creeping and crawling around the aisles,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Footage shared by the country's prime minister office shows soliders carrying survivors and crawling across thick slates of mud to reach others.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
They want AI agents crawling through messages to have unfettered access to every update on products, earnings and strategic initiatives, The Wall Street Journal reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
There, crawling on eight legs across the white sheets toward us, sporting a single dot on its back, was a deep-red, plump tick.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 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
