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
Rivas and his family still live nearby in suburban Hollister, where shopping centers crawl with a mix of gleaming SUVs and mud-spattered pickups.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023
The union held a daylong strike on Tuesday that brought the U.K. rail network to a crawl, with only a fifth of passenger services running.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2022
Sometimes they crawl with it through mud and human excrement until they hit U.S. soil.
From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2020
In Drayton you very soon do; every page begins to crawl with demonstrative monsters, and there is soon a good deal more love-making than love.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
