crawler
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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
When the crew of the colonization mission discover that their new home, an ice planet called Niflheim, is inhabited by armadillo-like crawler creatures, they wonder what to do about this unanticipated roadblock in their efforts.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
Publishers could also try to protect their content from Google by forbidding its web crawler from sharing any content snippets from their sites.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Or, maybe, the featured Google snippet will tell you that eggs can melt, thanks to a nonsense Quora answer caught in the search crawler.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2024
“Gregor, ride you on Vikus’s bat. Vikus, with me. Henry and Mareth, take one crawler each,” said Solovet.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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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
However publishers are generally happy to allow crawlers from search engines, like Google, to access their sites, so that the search companies can in return can direct people to their content.
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 are not known for their fighting ability,” said Vikus, by way of explanation to Gregor.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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