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 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.
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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
Generally, fungicides won’t effectively get rid of sooty mold, but sometimes horticultural oil sprays used to treat overwintering scale or crawlers can help to speed up its removal.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
Those crawlers copy webpage content at scale, then AI companies filter and package it into training datasets, the vast repositories that LLMs learn from.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Cloudflare’s tool works as a pay-per-crawl service, distinguishing GenAI crawlers that take information without sending much traffic back to creators, from search crawlers, which actually drive traffic back to the original source.
—Bill Ready, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
The larvae are voracious and consume many aphids and scale crawlers during this stage of development, MSU said.
—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
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
Generally, fungicides won’t effectively get rid of sooty mold, but sometimes horticultural oil sprays used to treat overwintering scale or crawlers can help to speed up its removal.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
Those crawlers copy webpage content at scale, then AI companies filter and package it into training datasets, the vast repositories that LLMs learn from.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Cloudflare’s tool works as a pay-per-crawl service, distinguishing GenAI crawlers that take information without sending much traffic back to creators, from search crawlers, which actually drive traffic back to the original source.
—Bill Ready, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
The larvae are voracious and consume many aphids and scale crawlers during this stage of development, MSU said.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawlers
snails
Noun
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At first, the video feed showed little more than brown mud pockmarked by burrowing worms and snails.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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The main thing to keep an eye out for with lettuce is slugs and snails.—
Helena Madden,
Martha Stewart,
5 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Crawlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawlers. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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