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crawler

[kraw-ler] / ˈkrɔ lər /


NOUN
milquetoast
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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

Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2024

Despite being a dungeon crawler, the series has an unusually explicit focus on food.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2024

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

“A crawler can live a month with no food if it has water. And don’t bother feeding Gox. Treflex will hold her for longer than our journey will last.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

And there is growing concern that some AI crawlers are disregarding existing protocols for excluding bots.

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

Some of the observations took twisted turns, like when she began to notice what she called “mass cannibalism” among the red crawlers.

From New York Times May 9, 2024

They could always find more crawlers, fliers, and spinners.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins




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