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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawlers
snails
Noun
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Its gritty texture helps repel pests like slugs and snails from your garden.—
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
25 Jan. 2026
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The snails have to breathe somehow.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Crawlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawlers. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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