crawl
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Not a basket of breads you’ll feel compelled to eat, nibble by nibble, or some roast that will eventually grow horns and crawl out of the refrigerator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Today, rows of giant African snails crawl inside wooden pens in Adjoa, a coastal community where fishing families are testing the new source of income.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Similarly to that crawl, L.A.’s will feature a passport system, which involves delegating stamps for every purchase of $10 or more at each stop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Compared with brachiopods, bivalves have greater energy demands because of their larger bodies and muscular "foot" that allows them to burrow and crawl.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Still Sean tried to hold the fish, tried to crawl out of the horse’s way.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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And sheer uncertainty abounds over how to handle raw fruits and veggies while this parasite crawls about.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Red Car line that used to service the area crawls through traffic that includes a Model T and horse-drawn carriages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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
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
My mother sits on the side of the bed and Prim crawls right up next to me and they hold me, making quiet soothing sounds, until I am mostly cried out.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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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
But it was teams of firefighters and rescue workers from Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the U.S. who crawled through slabs of concrete in search of survivors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Daveigh Chase, the horror actress who crawled out of a telly in The Ring and who voiced Lilo in Disney's animated Lilo & Stitch, has died aged 35.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
They reached a fallen oak bridging the river, and crawled over it on their hands and knees.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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“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
One MP says Parliament has had a "strange atmosphere all week, with people crawling over each other to try to get to him".
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Consumer sentiment has been crawling off its all-time lows, as news of a ceasefire agreement and a retreat in gasoline prices lift households’ spirits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“I came across the Waymo a car or two in front of me in the left-hand lane when I saw these kids start crawling out of the car,” Shahsavani told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
When he blocked the image of a spider crawling on him, her tiny feet actually tickled a little.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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