crab
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Earlier this week, Anthropic hosted a limited giveaway of “Clawd” plushies and stickers — a reference to the pixelated crab logo featured in the Claude Code terminal tool.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Anthropic staffer Sam McAllister built the retro, pixelated crab known as Clawd with code in Claude and used it to showcase some of the product’s features in a 2024 demo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The contrasting styles and materials of the individual elements elevate each work into an invigorating whole—a pensive portrait, for example, is given a frisson of danger thanks to the spiky crab shells that surround it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
But the waves can be unforgiving in December, which is when the crab season opens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Then he cut long blades of tough crab grass, and sat cross-legged on the ground tearing the grass lengthwise so that each blade became many strands.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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She also shaved her head — all to add authenticity as her queen evolved from youth to crabbed old age.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
In this crabbed and narrow view of things, the prime offender was the Pop art typified by Andy Warhol, whose 1970 retrospective caused a hubbub at the organizing Pasadena Museum of Art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
But it is quite another for the judiciary to apply that same crabbed conception to speech beyond the school setting.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021
Conversely, the cynical prognosticators who used to seem crabbed and paranoid just keep getting proven right.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2020
The missing toes on his left foot had left him with a crabbed, awkward gait, comical to look upon.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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The transmission malfunctioned in his 1978 boat, Miss Julie, which he also uses for crabbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A GoFundMe set up in Meadows’ name described the deckhand from Montesano, Wash., as a father to “three amazing little boys” who died “while doing what he loved — crabbing out on Alaskan waters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
Benjamin Cullis, from Padstow, had been fishing and crabbing with his family when he fell off the harbour wall and hit his head on the side of a yacht on 24 June 2023.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
When McArthur and Burris were filming the “Marsh Ruins,” they fielded warnings from the men crabbing on the pier.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
From November to March, he was tonging for oysters, and from late April into the fall, he was crabbing.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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