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Recent Examples of crab
Noun
Their namesake bills can probe into the ground to snatch deep-burrowing creatures, whether crabs, shrimp or worms and other invertebrates. Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025 The marinated raw crab is bathed in fish sauce, garlic, chilis, cilantro, and lime juice and then chilled. Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
The 2020 crabbing season was officially set to begin Dec. 23, but price negotiations between crab fleets and seafood processors delayed the start until early January 2021. Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024 The 21-foot white Bayliner reportedly had six occupants — three adults and three juveniles — and had been crabbing off of Bodega. John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for crab
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crab
Noun
  • Meanwhile, in California, the logo is a golden bear with a star in the middle and in Texas, the Real ID is a golden circle with a white star at the top right corner.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Despite initially remaining hot on the man's heels for a moment, the bear eventually gave up the chase.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In another email to Instagram leaders in 2017, Systrom complained that Instagram got no new headcount despite a wide investment to grow the company’s video ambitions.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Preservationists are complaining that Tranquillity’s plan would harm the open views in that part of town.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Arson – To unlawfully and intentionally damage or attempt to damage any real or personal property of another person or entity by fire or incendiary device.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Mineral extraction has damaging social consequences in developing countries, where the impoverished are often compelled to work in unsafe and unhygienic conditions.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The audience screamed in approval for the coming out, as seen in a TikTok from the show.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 24 Apr. 2025
  • During his mock intervention with Jason and Danny, Jax says that his father was always yelling and screaming, so was his grandfather.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Memorial at Florida State University after a fatal shooting killed two people and injured several others.
    Kati Weis, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The spill killed 11 people and injured 17 others as 210 million gallons of crude oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico (recently renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America) for a total of 87 days.
    Terry Collins, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Kitchen Accessories Collectible kitchen accessories can range from regular-use items like beautiful copper pots to more decorative items, like vintage bread boxes and hand crank mixers.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2025
  • At the same time, Barnes was a crank of operatic grandiosity—thin-skinned, bellicose, distrustful, fickle, and vindictive.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Maybe if the teen had whined less, viewers wouldn't have yearned to see her get eaten by some Hellmouth beast.
    EW.com, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Megan Michelson is an Outside contributing editor who loves long drives, even when her two children are whining in the backseat.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • His rookie season was marred by an uneven second half, which was hindered by hand and foot injuries.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2025
  • His final collegiate season was marred by a shoulder injury and insufficient QB play, but Loveland still led the Wolverines in receptions (56), receiving yards (582) and receiving TDs (five).
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025

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“Crab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crab. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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