as in to huddle
to lie low with the limbs close to the body the cat crouched in the bushes, waiting for the right moment to pounce on the chipmunk

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Recent Examples of crouch More doctors and nurses converge as if they’d been crouched, hiding alongside the arms the whole time. Erica Stern june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025 Those without umbrellas crouched under trees and retreated to awnings of businesses and apartment buildings. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2025 By holding the right shoulder button (normally used for drifting around curves) during a straight away, the player character will crouch into their karts and, upon release, can jump straight up into the air, or flip in whatever direction the joystick is held. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2025 When Garza went inside the store and took at least one lighter from the counter, the clerk came outside armed with a handgun to confront Garza, who crouched by the puddle of kerosene and either threatened to light it or attempted to light it, Hodges said. Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crouch
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  • As people watched from apartment patios above street level, and as tourists huddled inside hotels, a large contingent of LAPD officers and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies fired several flash bangs that boomed through side streets along with tear gas.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 11 June 2025
  • Some attendees filtered away while others huddled under umbrellas and ponchos.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 June 2025
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  • In boardrooms across the world, a familiar scene unfolds daily: executives hunched over spreadsheets, dissecting metrics, optimizing processes, and chasing the next quarter's numbers.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
  • Several young men crept through the crowd, hunched over and hiding something in their hands.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
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  • Asencio was squatting, dejected, after realising his mistake for the red card, getting the wrong side of Rondon and bringing him down clumsily.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • The sort of creative thinking and backroom drafting that produced this squatting bill represents the best of the Maryland General Assembly.
    Chris West, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2025

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“Crouch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crouch. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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