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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crouch
Verb
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Tense scenes played out in the chamber as voting came to a standstill, dragging on for hours as holdout senators huddled for negotiations.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
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Tense scenes played out in the chamber as voting came to a standstill, dragging for hours as holdout senators huddled for negotiations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 June 2025
Verb
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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
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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
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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 5 Jul. 2025.
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