crouch
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Be sure to crouch low and appreciate the Stormtrooper’s mundane white boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Others carry the earth to a nearby seasonal river, where mostly women crouch in the murky water, washing and sifting mud and sand hoping to detect a tiny trace of the element.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Seen through this lens, the Monroe Doctrine was more a defensive crouch than the posture of a global hegemon.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
At no point can a skier duck into a crouch and let gravity carry him while he catches his breath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Another memory: Morris letting Moss crouch down in Tariq’s yard while Ginger jumped all over him.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The woman crouches, coaxing the animal with sweet compliments and a stick of sugarcane she brought with her.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
He crouches unusually low in the ring to maintain his balance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
On the other end of the spectrum crouches The Liver King, the subject of a recently debuted episode of Netflix’s “Untold” sports documentary series.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
“Feel this,” says Hubert Bazin, and crouches and brings her hand to a curved wall which is completely studded with snails.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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The man was crouched behind a 5-foot-tall gun safe Roebuck had purchased a few weeks earlier.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Though the main river channel lay some distance away, the surge had overflowed its banks, extending to the slope where Hamal was crouched behind a large rock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
At the final whistle, Pulisic crouched on the field, covered his face with his jersey and cried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
Meghan recently called Lilibet "Mama's little helper", after posting an image of them in what looks like a walk-in wardrobe, where the duchess is trying on a coat while her daughter is crouched down nearby.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The creature is crouched by the sofa, distracted by something, by … pizza?
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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She sort of darts into frame, or she’s crouching, even the movement of her hands as she’s reenacting what might have happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Images circulating on Mexican media showed man in a checked shirt on the pyramid as visitors appeared to be crouching at the foot of the Pyramid of the Moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
The single square column features crouching figures in the capital who seem to be holding up the arch, a playful evocation of the classical figure of the caryatid or herm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Video clips of him crouching and then being whisked away from a rally in the Copperbelt province shocked Zambians and many people, irrespective of their political affiliation, condemned what happened.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
In another moment, they were all crouching in a thicket.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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