as in snails
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 crawlers
Although the crawlers are more common in the western half of the state, they can be found in every county in Tennessee with the possible exception of a few extreme eastern counties.
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
The company was supposed to have blocked crawlers from Google harvesting Claude chats, but hundreds of conversations were found with some simple searches.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
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
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
Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
The company was supposed to have blocked crawlers from Google harvesting Claude chats, but hundreds of conversations were found with some simple searches.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
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
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
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Many springs feature a visible boil at the water surface above the spring vent, crystal clear water, submerged grasses waving in the current, and a range of fish, turtles, snails and other aquatic animals hiding in the grasses.—
Christopher F. Meindl,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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Some swimming snails have lost their protective shells (more like swimming slugs), while others retain them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Crawlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawlers. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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