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crawl

[krawl] / krɔl /




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Aurora told staff: “Oh yeah, bugs just crawl on me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

It comes six months after the golfer rolled his Land Rover in Florida and had to crawl out of the passenger door of the car.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

One approach being tested involves robots that can crawl across the seafloor.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Yet on Friday, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield’s rapid move toward the crucial 5% threshold suddenly slowed to a crawl.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026

I watched him crawl to the lip of the breathing hole and not move for a while.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

There’s also a less than 10% chance of showers, if one of the hurricanes crawls farther up the coast, according to Wofford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The percussion on “2 Hard 4 the Radio” bangs and jumps where so much of the record crawls, and his fleet verse recalls the cadence of his 2018 hit “Nice for What.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

As she crawls, screams, scratches and sneers, Lawrence maintains a soulful balance between Grace’s creeping delirium and her ceaseless dedication to her newborn son.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

Residents across the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales have been waiting anxiously as Cyclone Alfred crawls towards them, leaving thousands in the dark.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025

As I stand there feeling sorry for myself, Mango peeks out from his hiding place, looks around, then tentatively crawls out and winds himself around my legs.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

With her pain getting worse, she "crawled into the doctors on my hands and knees" in May, asking for the coil to be removed.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Phoebe said she was told by staff to try and get her wheelchair through the train aisle, but it did not fit so she crawled through three carriages.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Then I began to worry that the van would run me over, so I crawled out from underneath and banged on the window.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Well, we didn’t walk out of it. We crawled out of it, but we did get out of it alive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Kneeling down, he opened a low cupboard, crawled inside and pushed at the back of the cupboard where a loose panel gave way.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

At the hospital, an insect fell from the girl’s shoe, and a staffer saw a cockroach crawling on her, the district attorney’s office said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

“I’ll have to come crawling back to the traditional entertainment industry, hoping that I still have a place there,” he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

They want AI agents crawling through messages to have unfettered access to every update on products, earnings and strategic initiatives, The Wall Street Journal reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

"I'm just scared when he gets older, when he starts crawling around, I can't even allow him to crawl in such a place like that because it's so dirty," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

I swiveled around, half expected to find flames crawling up the walls.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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