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Recent Examples of crouch
And there, underneath the window, a man is crouching.
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Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
Video posted online from the Philippines showed people crouching down on sidewalks and traffic stopping as the earthquake shook the streets.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
This is all before Raleigh crouches behind the plate for roughly three hours, calling 150 pitches a night and manning a 13-person pitching staff’s stuff, repertoire, and personality.
—Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Video later showed a man climbing a staircase to a common area beside the building, scaling a wall and crouching on the rooftop.
—Stepheny Price , Alexandra Koch , Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
Video posted online from the Philippines showed people crouching down on sidewalks and traffic stopping as the earthquake shook the streets.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
This is all before Raleigh crouches behind the plate for roughly three hours, calling 150 pitches a night and manning a 13-person pitching staff’s stuff, repertoire, and personality.
—Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Video later showed a man climbing a staircase to a common area beside the building, scaling a wall and crouching on the rooftop.
—Stepheny Price , Alexandra Koch , Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crouch
Verb
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There, huddled on the ground, is a motionless olive-green songbird.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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After huddling over an onX map, our small orange army decided to head for the shelter belt on the far north edge of the field.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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After the vehicle set-off, Bruni was shown slightly hunched, walking down a cobbled alley back to the family home, embracing the couple’s teenage daughter.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
21 Oct. 2025
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Deep into the opening-night party at the Middleburg Film Festival, Joel Edgerton hunches over a cocktail table, flipping through the event’s official program.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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And, that there was a goblin, squatting in my skull, rattling a metal pail full of bolts and hissing failure, rot, spoil.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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Jeanroy squats down, nudges Taïga aside, and starts digging with a cavadou—a sort of pick that resembles a very scary dental tool.—
Aislyn Greene,
AFAR Media,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Crouch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crouch. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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