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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

Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2024

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

From Salon Jul. 22, 2024

When Supergiant Games was wrapping up Hades, a mythologically rich hack-and-slash dungeon crawler it had spent more than three years developing, the studio concluded it was not quite done.

From New York Times May 13, 2024

He was probably chanting, “Got to be self-reliant” the day he climbed into a crawler and tore into the fields of satin wheat.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

Initially the system will apply by default to new users of Cloudflare services, plus sites that participated in an earlier effort to block crawlers.

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

The crawlers would make better friends than enemies, and humans shouldn’t go around insulting them.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins




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