crawl
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One approach being tested involves robots that can crawl across the seafloor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Yet on Friday, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield’s rapid move toward the crucial 5% threshold suddenly slowed to a crawl.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
“This base remains ready to crawl across glass for this guy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Dodgers had a chance to crawl closer with one out in the eighth, with Teoscar Hernández on third and Hunter Feduccia on first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Her limbs were stiff from sleeping on the ground, and she could not crawl as fast as she had the night before.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
The Red Car line that used to service the area crawls through traffic that includes a Model T and horse-drawn carriages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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
The West Midlands Peaky Blinder Group, which arranges monthly meet-ups and pub crawls for show enthusiasts, has grown to 44,000 members since being set up in 2018.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Lobster crawls along the bottom eating what it can find.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
The hiker crawled through the night, down the remainder of Avalanche Gulch to Horse Camp Cabin, at one point removing his boots due to painful swelling, the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Well, we didn’t walk out of it. We crawled out of it, but we did get out of it alive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Roa and his companions initially crawled and then cut a hole to reach the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Daveigh Chase, the horror actress who crawled out of a TV in The Ring and voiced Lilo in Disney's animated Lilo & Stitch, died this month from Aids, according to a medical examiner's report.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Rowdy got scared, ran outside, and crawled under the porch.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
She spent the next two days crawling on her hands and knees, she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
“Staff reported that there was a male adult creeping and crawling around the aisles,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
There, crawling on eight legs across the white sheets toward us, sporting a single dot on its back, was a deep-red, plump tick.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
“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
There were seven people now, crawling slowly down the hall, pushing trucks and making engine and siren noises.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
