crawler
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Traveling at a top speed of just 0.82 mph, the crawler moved the massive Moon rocket steadily toward the launch pad.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026
Despite being a dungeon crawler, the series has an unusually explicit focus on food.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2024
Publishers could also try to protect their content from Google by forbidding its web crawler from sharing any content snippets from their sites.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Or, maybe, the featured Google snippet will tell you that eggs can melt, thanks to a nonsense Quora answer caught in the search crawler.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2024
I found a creepy crawler in my notebook.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
If there’s been an even more difficult task than policing predatory A.I. crawlers, it’s been keeping Reddit interactions personal, healthy, and as bot-free as possible.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025
Much of the material used to develop generative AI models has been pulled from a massive range of web sources using bots and crawlers, which automatically extract site data.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
When Adam Cooper came across an old junkyard filled with RVs and rock crawlers in South Central, he immediately saw its potential.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
Some of the observations took twisted turns, like when she began to notice what she called “mass cannibalism” among the red crawlers.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
“If you add up all the players in the prophecy, two over, two under, two fliers, two crawlers, two spinners, one gnawer, and one lost, you have twelve,” said Vikus gravely.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
