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crawler

[kraw-ler] / ˈkrɔ lər /


NOUN
milquetoast
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Traveling at a top speed of just 0.82 mph, the crawler moved the massive Moon rocket steadily toward the launch pad.

From Science Daily Jan. 19, 2026

Despite being a dungeon crawler, the series has an unusually explicit focus on food.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2024

Or, maybe, the featured Google snippet will tell you that eggs can melt, thanks to a nonsense Quora answer caught in the search crawler.

From Slate Feb. 2, 2024

The family called drainage firm Clearaway to ask if it could help and the team used a crawler camera, which is normally used to inspect pipes for cracks, to find the dog.

From BBC Nov. 1, 2022

“Gregor, ride you on Vikus’s bat. Vikus, with me. Henry and Mareth, take one crawler each,” said Solovet.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Meanwhile, Time is helping advertisers get their messages in front of bots, using a sort of Trojan horse approach—creating text-based ads that regular readers never see but that AI crawlers might find.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

AI crawlers, it argues, collect content like text, articles, and images to generate answers, without sending visitors to the original source—depriving content creators of revenue.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2025

If there’s been an even more difficult task than policing predatory A.I. crawlers, it’s been keeping Reddit interactions personal, healthy, and as bot-free as possible.

From Slate Jun. 23, 2025

When Adam Cooper came across an old junkyard filled with RVs and rock crawlers in South Central, he immediately saw its potential.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2024

“Most of the creatures in the Underland, the crawlers, the bats, the fish, they have no need of light. We humans are lost without it.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins




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