crawl with

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The economy started off gangbusters in 2025 with 3.8% growth in the second quarter and 4.4% in the third but slowed to a crawl with 1.4% in the fourth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

And the nation’s vaccination drive has slowed to a crawl, with only about 48% of the population fully protected.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2021

Sometimes they crawl with it through mud and human excrement until they hit U.S. soil.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2020

“I would do the entire bar crawl with my Yashica T4 and shoot 10 rolls a night,” continues McGinley, before adding wistfully: “All those places are gone now.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2020

Then there are “slimy things that crawl with legs upon a slimy sea,” and any quantity of hopping mud-fish, and crabs, and a certain mollusc, and in the water various kinds of cat-fish. 

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.