crouch
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The students crouch over monitors, assemble flight hardware, run orbital simulations, wire power systems and design satellite-tracking stations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The sound of our leadership now makes us all crouch too low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Seen through this lens, the Monroe Doctrine was more a defensive crouch than the posture of a global hegemon.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
The agency also recommends trying to look bigger, if possible, and warns people to never approach the big cat or crouch down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025
I crouch next to Rani and mumble a prayer.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
The woman crouches, coaxing the animal with sweet compliments and a stick of sugarcane she brought with her.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
"She hides, crouches down in another hiding place and he comes looking for her; he comes very close to her and as he gets nearer says, 'Alright?'."
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
He crouches unusually low in the ring to maintain his balance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
On the other end of the spectrum crouches The Liver King, the subject of a recently debuted episode of Netflix’s “Untold” sports documentary series.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
He crouches beside my desk and shakes my thigh.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Then three soldiers climbed onto the rubble, in a line, as if in formation, and crouched down to listen.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
At the final whistle, Pulisic crouched on the field, covered his face with his jersey and cried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
Meghan recently called Lilibet "Mama's little helper", after posting an image of them in what looks like a walk-in wardrobe, where the duchess is trying on a coat while her daughter is crouched down nearby.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
They quickly rushed Trump off the stage and through a back curtain as the crowd crouched in shock.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
Jeremy heard Mary Lou gasp as Tiamat reached the front of the room and crouched beside Mr. Kravitz's left foot.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
Images circulating on Mexican media showed man in a checked shirt on the pyramid as visitors appeared to be crouching at the foot of the Pyramid of the Moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
The way I wrote it, I had her crouching over the pitcher and Anna Moench, as the main female writer on the show, was like, “Sonny, I don’t think you know this works.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
The single square column features crouching figures in the capital who seem to be holding up the arch, a playful evocation of the classical figure of the caryatid or herm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
As she was crouching, she lost her balance and fell.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
I think Pa just liked the way the Wildcat growled and rumbled like a crouching animal about to strike.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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