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
The larvae are voracious and consume many aphids and scale crawlers during this stage of development, MSU said.
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Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Try ones shaped like pumpkins, skulls, or spiders and other creepy crawlers.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Try ones shaped like pumpkins, skulls, or spiders and other creepy crawlers.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawlers
snails
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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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“Crawlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawlers. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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