crawl
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If water collects in certain spots, or if your crawl space is consistently damp, consider installing a sump pump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
“This base remains ready to crawl across glass for this guy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
I couldn’t see them well in the dark and tried to crawl to them but everything was blurred and the man came again, the friend.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
And sheer uncertainty abounds over how to handle raw fruits and veggies while this parasite crawls about.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Critics on the Croisette are starting to resemble that classic comic-strip panel in which an explorer crawls desperately across the sand toward an oasis that’s only a mirage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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
DeShon stands, tethers himself, and crawls slowly onto and across the webbing.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The hiker crawled through the night, down the remainder of Avalanche Gulch to Horse Camp Cabin, at one point removing his boots due to painful swelling, the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
That was only reinforced when they crawled through the group stage here with draws in their first two matches against Egypt and Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Roa and his companions initially crawled and then cut a hole to reach the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
So, while the Dodgers crawled out of the hole with a season-high 17 hits, the steep cost heightens the pressure on the rest of the rotation the rest of the series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 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
“Staff reported that there was a male adult creeping and crawling around the aisles,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
There have also been reports of people unable to refrigerate medication and a wheelchair user crawling down their stairs in the absence of working lifts.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Social media platforms and message boards are crawling with asks for reliable weather app recommendations, and the answers can vary wildly.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Finally, the saboteurs began moving, crawling, then walking away from the crashing waves.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
