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
Try ones shaped like pumpkins, skulls, or spiders and other creepy crawlers.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawlers
snails
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The range of the monster drawings included primitive people, giant spiders, serpents, snails and fantastical fish.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
22 Oct. 2025
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The giant snails are found only in the Ruahine, Kaweka and Kaimanawa mountain ranges in the lower central region of New Zealand’s North Island.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Crawlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawlers. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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