as in snail
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late
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Recent Examples of crawler
Cloudflare’s tool works as a pay-per-crawl service, distinguishing GenAI crawlers that take information without sending much traffic back to creators, from search crawlers, which actually drive traffic back to the original source.
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Bill Ready, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
An enormous, moving platform known as a crawler-transporter will carry the 11 million-pound Artemis II rocket to NASA’s historic Launch Pad 39B, which was also used during the Apollo and space shuttle programs.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 17 Jan. 2026
The move involves a four-mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B aboard the crawler-transporter 2, a process expected to take up to 12 hours.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
The crawler was last used on Artemis I in 2022, and had to make several trips to the pad and back as teams worked through hardware issues and even the threat of Hurricane Ian.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
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Bill Ready, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
An enormous, moving platform known as a crawler-transporter will carry the 11 million-pound Artemis II rocket to NASA’s historic Launch Pad 39B, which was also used during the Apollo and space shuttle programs.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 17 Jan. 2026
The move involves a four-mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B aboard the crawler-transporter 2, a process expected to take up to 12 hours.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
The crawler was last used on Artemis I in 2022, and had to make several trips to the pad and back as teams worked through hardware issues and even the threat of Hurricane Ian.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawler
snail
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And perhaps most importantly, two Zamboni machines moved, at the typical snail’s pace, across the surface.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
4 Feb. 2026
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For biologists and engineers alike, studying this snail’s armor is nothing short of fascinating.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Crawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawler. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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