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
Sourcing marketers are focusing heavily on semantic modeling—ensuring their product catalogs, material certifications and white papers are clean, structured and easily digestible for AI crawlers.
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Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
For details on the DLR's work on rovers, crawlers & drones on Mars — the Valles Marineris Explorer project, visit the project's website.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 31 May 2026
Complex, meandering text forces crawlers to infer meaning.
—Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Both Index and Cloudflare’s offerings are trying to move beyond the binary choice of blocking AI crawlers or allowing free access.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 19 May 2026
Spray an insecticidal soap twice a week to say goodbye to the little crawlers.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
The fuzzy-looking crawlers can cause irritation and a rash to anyone whose skin comes in direct contact with the barbed hairs that cover the caterpillar.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
These creepy crawlers cause itchy bites and are hard to kill.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
After the Apollo moon mission program ended in 1972, the crawlers were used to haul space shuttles to launch pads.
—George Petras, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
For details on the DLR's work on rovers, crawlers & drones on Mars — the Valles Marineris Explorer project, visit the project's website.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 31 May 2026
Complex, meandering text forces crawlers to infer meaning.
—Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Both Index and Cloudflare’s offerings are trying to move beyond the binary choice of blocking AI crawlers or allowing free access.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 19 May 2026
Spray an insecticidal soap twice a week to say goodbye to the little crawlers.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
The fuzzy-looking crawlers can cause irritation and a rash to anyone whose skin comes in direct contact with the barbed hairs that cover the caterpillar.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
These creepy crawlers cause itchy bites and are hard to kill.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
After the Apollo moon mission program ended in 1972, the crawlers were used to haul space shuttles to launch pads.
—George Petras, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawlers
snails
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So, too, do simultaneous hermaphrodites, a collection of creatures that includes most species of land snails, slugs, and earthworms.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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In outdoor ferns, slugs and snails can chew holes in fronds.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
22 June 2026
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“Crawlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawlers. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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