crawl
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Seven months into Mamdani’s tenure, some of the landmark projects in the EDC’s pipeline have been moving at the pace of a slow crawl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Turner and his peers originally drew inspiration from San Diego’s book crawl, which just had its ninth anniversary.
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
He said there were still "two or three" tunnels "you can crawl down into".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
“That’s cell manipulation. Genetically modified mouse would be like putting pads on its feet so it can crawl up walls like a bug.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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She climbs, she crawls, she leaps, she runs like the Santa Ana wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
OpenAI crawls the web with bots to build an index for ChatGPT, just like Google does.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 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
Residents across the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales have been waiting anxiously as Cyclone Alfred crawls towards them, leaving thousands in the dark.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
After the cotton is set, Captain Keelson crawls out from under the boat and dusts himself off.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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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
Once inside, they climbed, rappelled, crawled, and even floated through flooded sections while recording the caves' shapes and fracture patterns.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
With both legs free, Roald crawled to the front of the log as it “bucked wildly in the current.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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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
FOXBOROUGH, Mass.—France and Morocco were about to take the field, and Emily Austin was still crawling through traffic toward Gillette Stadium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
“I saw part of that, and what really freaked me out was when she was crawling up upside down and backwards down the stairs — kind of like the spider.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Trying not to think of the sticky white curtains that swathed the trees, the huge, crawling spiders and their million eyes so close.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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