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But so far, the market has shown few signs of picking up even as interest rates have crept lower.

They crept into his home en masse, climbing through the air-conditioning units, clinging to the window curtains, marching down the wall, trotting across the vaulted ceiling, lurking in the gloom of the basement.

In fact, working hours gradually crept upward from the 1970s onward.

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

But AI darling Palantir Technologies’ quarterly results failed to impress Wall Street, while caution crept into the AI trade more generally, as investors started to wonder whether massive investments by tech companies will pay off.