creeps
Example Sentences
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Evening creeps into the quiet, foggy hours of midnight.
From Literature
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For a few, doubt creeps in, but most overcome their cognitive dissonance and reinflate the bubble of credulity that constitutes their comfort zone.
From Salon
This is still a relatively small number but Salesforce’s agent trajectory is an important metric as enterprise AI adoption creeps higher.
From Barron's
Fittingly, the sound creates a crack in one of the home’s windows: Via that fissure, the unfolding apocalypse creeps into their lives.
He hopes “A World Appears” encourages others to do the same: to observe what’s going on inside of them a little more, and when boredom, inevitably, creeps in to, perhaps, do nothing about it all.
From Los Angeles Times
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