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creeper

[kree-per] / ˈkri pər /
NOUN
runner
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Not one creeper seems to doubt that the others have a soul.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

Kittelberger photographed the pictured 'Akikiki, also called Kauai's creeper, in the Alaka'i Wilderness Preserve in 2022, when it was believed around 70 or so remained in the wild; today, only one individual remains.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

Here grow maple, oak, hickory, cottonwood, sycamore, river birch, hackberry, fronds bowed under climbing English ivy, with winter creeper spreading underfoot.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

The newly identified species has been named Arenaepeton supinatus, which means "sand creeper on its back" in Latin.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023

Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

He teamed it with a silver neck chain and earring plus white brothel creepers for extra height.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2022

Plot twist: Vegas has been overrun by zombies— not the shambling, mindless creepers from The Walking Dead, mind you; these zombies are organized and smart.

From The Verge ● Apr. 18, 2021

And because it came from Rihanna’s brain herself, you couldn’t get a pair of those creepers if you tried.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2020

Fable and allegory curl themselves like creepers around our hero’s feet.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019

Then he turned over, drew his feet under him and laid hold of the creepers to pull himself up.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding


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