crawl out

The "upper middle-class" label invoked by Reich is an effort to crawl out of the conceptual and terminological morass: Who or what is the middle class, exactly, and how useful is it to split that up into the "upper" or "lower" or "Black" or "suburban" middle classes to suit a particular point?

Wiggins — who reports to a 13-member board that includes Los Angeles’ mayor and the county supervisors — took over at Metro in 2021, just as the region began to crawl out of a pandemic that profoundly altered transit.

That journey of love and acceptance, of wanting to belong someplace and having someone see you for the greatness that you are, even if you did crawl out of the slime — that’s the princess journey.

We are in Little Kilton, a picturesque English village, the sort of place where, sayeth Miss Marple, “you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out” — and Miss Marple is rarely wrong.

I somehow remain modestly optimistic we will crawl out of this.