crawlers

plural of crawler

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Recent Examples of crawlers The creepy crawlers were discovered in upside-down plastic tubs, and many of them died. Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025 Yes, Google still reads it, and so do other AI crawlers. Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025 The Cloudflare researchers said that in response to their findings, the company is taking actions to prevent crawlers from accessing sites that use its content-delivery service. Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2025 Shotland says that businesses should also avoid blocking AI crawlers, which could prevent them from showing up in overviews at all. Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025 This work presents inflatable kirigami crawlers created by introducing cut patterns into heat-sealable textiles to achieve locomotion upon cyclic pneumatic actuation. Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025 Traditional search deploys web crawlers to pull in information that matches keywords, but AI aims to answer a question accurately, taking into account intent and context. Raianne Reiss, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024 Of a search engine’s parts, which include things such as web crawlers, ranking algorithms and the search interface itself, the index may be the most difficult to create. Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawlers
snails
Noun
  • Millions of gastropods, like snails and mollusks from various species, died suddenly in Inle Lake.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 5, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The subject of snails stemmed from Mercier’s long fascination with history and time — snails like alligators predate back to 500 million years ago with the only thing changing are their sizes.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Crawlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawlers. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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