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
Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation.
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Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
This may yield additional, creepier, and crawler results.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Andrew Garfield played the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Bing's crawler does take mobile-friendliness into account but is device-agnostic.
—PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
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Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
This may yield additional, creepier, and crawler results.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Andrew Garfield played the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Bing's crawler does take mobile-friendliness into account but is device-agnostic.
—PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawler
snail
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This will reduce the number of snails and other pests that overwinter nearby and feed on your plants in spring.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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Sturdy cloches can keep slugs, snails, and many other pests from feeding on veggies, herbs, and flowers.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Crawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawler. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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