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Climate change and environmental disturbance have aided an increasing creep of the territories ticks inhabit—along with the viruses, bacteria, and pathogens they carry.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Avoid lifestyle creep, where seeing more money in the checking account is tied to the feeling of more freedom to spend.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

At the same time, the level of gray-zone or hybrid war continues to creep up without triggering a strong public reaction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Their unusual atomic organization can give them exceptional strength, high melting temperatures, and strong resistance to creep, which is the slow deformation of a material under prolonged heat and stress.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

Slowly, she let her stomach slide off the tree, feeling the water creep up to her waist.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

As AI creeps further into the music industry, copyright remains the sticking point — now on a format that fans seek precisely because a person made it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

When Dr. Becky says to greet guilt that creeps in for not knowing this stuff, I do: “Hi, Guilt.”

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

As artificial intelligence creeps further into the workplace, employees risk getting left behind if they don’t start embracing the technology.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026

Fittingly, the sound creates a crack in one of the home’s windows: Via that fissure, the unfolding apocalypse creeps into their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

The same feeling creeps into me now as the vessel oscillates under me.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Even the winning six delivered a tantalising wait, hanging in the air, teasing the chance of a catch, but it just crept over the rope to spark Super Giants' celebrations.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

One morning, the two women crept out and Terekh drove past charred vehicles at top speed to reach Kyiv.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Then I noticed a footprint that I didn’t make, at least not directly, had crept back up onto Page 1 of the search results.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Certainly, I felt a bit like Odysseus as I crept — drained, disoriented and trailing popcorn crumbs like Ithican sand — out into the sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

In the middle of the night, I crept silently out of my bed and went to the workshop where Father keeps his tools.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

The moth's caterpillars will only eat two plants - aspen and creeping willow - which makes it a challenge to conserve, according to Butterfly Conservation.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

At this point, investors have grown accustomed to brief bouts of volatility — spurred by tariffs, the war with Iran or creeping worries about the payoff on artificial-intelligence-related investments.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Flames weren’t spreading rapidly but the fire was smoldering, creeping along and eating up the vegetation between the rocks on the ridgeline, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

However, since early July oil prices have been "creeping upwards until the middle of the month then stagnating".

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

When the hippos were silent, she imagined them creeping around the tree where she had tied up.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer