as in to creep
to move slowly
the line at the registry of motor vehicles was just creaking along
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The neighborhood drug dealing and violence eventually crept all the way up to the family's front porch, where one of her uncles was fatally shot, just seven months after her grandmother died.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025 -
Long before current inflationary problems, theater tickets had been creeping up for years in pricing, as the cost of running a show skyrocketed.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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Pack everything into 48 hours, survive on airport food, collapse in whatever hotel room the company booked, then drag yourself home.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The ex-boyfriend is accused of dragging the woman by her hair to the car, while the second man allegedly took her wallet.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Adam crawls along the floor, left, about to put his finger in an electrical outlet, right, while his baby watches from afar.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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The company argued that its AI assistants operate on behalf of a user's request and are not systematically crawling the web for training data.—
Paulo Carvão,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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On Wednesday Ahn slowly shuffled to a bridge leading to the Korean Peninsula’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), pleading for permission to cross the zone – one of the most heavily militarized borders in the world – and enter North Korea.—
Gawon Bae,
CNN Money,
20 Aug. 2025
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My shortlist of 50 wouldn’t have shuffled Braid, Celeste, or Terraria to this section, but, y’know, different strokes.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Over the last decade, the tech giant has limped through controversies related to election interference, radicalization, disinformation, and the mental health and well-being of teens.—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Despite guiding the Terps to three consecutive bowl wins for the first time in program history, Locksley came under fire after last year’s squad limped to a 4-8 record and a 1-7 mark in the Big Ten.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Creak (along).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creak%20%28along%29. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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