crab
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Eventually, he was getting ghosted for food-preparation jobs, including at a company that sells frozen crab cakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Earlier this week, Anthropic hosted a limited giveaway of “Clawd” plushies and stickers — a reference to the pixelated crab logo featured in the Claude Code terminal tool.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Anthropic staffer Sam McAllister built the retro, pixelated crab known as Clawd with code in Claude and used it to showcase some of the product’s features in a 2024 demo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
They do this blue crab hand roll and they add some jalapeno and give you a ponzu sauce to dip it in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Averaging a pound and a half per trap, keeper size, and more crab than I know what to do with.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
She also shaved her head — all to add authenticity as her queen evolved from youth to crabbed old age.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Such a crabbed view goes against how art is often created — spontaneously, with improvisation and serendipity.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
This is a truly crabbed and reductive view of the man and his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
Conversely, the cynical prognosticators who used to seem crabbed and paranoid just keep getting proven right.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2020
“It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch. I wonder when St. John will come home.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
The transmission malfunctioned in his 1978 boat, Miss Julie, which he also uses for crabbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A GoFundMe set up in Meadows’ name described the deckhand from Montesano, Wash., as a father to “three amazing little boys” who died “while doing what he loved — crabbing out on Alaskan waters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
Thousands of people tune in to watch pilots perform a "crabbing" movement during stormy conditions and strong crosswinds.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
This is the fifth consecutive year of commercial crabbing delays instituted to decrease the chances of migrating whales currently off the coast getting ensnared by the crab-pot fishing lines.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
From November to March, he was tonging for oysters, and from late April into the fall, he was crabbing.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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