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Recent Examples of crouched
The young defender then crouched down and touched the ball with both hands, stopping it on the edge of the six-yard box.
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Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Jinsu Elhance, a geospatial data scientist with SPUN, crouched to hammer the 7-inch-long metal cylinder into the soil.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
When The Times connected with Reyes, she was crouched down backstage at the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College in the Bronx.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
Jones’ wife Marie came out to the mound for the first pitch with daughters Jami and Staci, who threw the ball to Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman crouched behind the plate.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Kunkel, a freelance journalist at a protest outside an immigration detention center in Chicago on September 26, was crouched behind a van when an agent took aim from a safe perch behind a chain link fence.
—Bob Ortega, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026
People stood, crouched and leaned against cars, eating shawarma, nihari burgers, kunafa and stretchy ice cream.
—Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 8 Mar. 2026
Bhakta and his friends stayed inside, crouched down, until police arrived.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 8 Mar. 2026
Ten minutes before the start of Daniel Radcliffe’s one-man show on Broadway, Every Brilliant Thing, the actor is crouched in the aisle.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Jinsu Elhance, a geospatial data scientist with SPUN, crouched to hammer the 7-inch-long metal cylinder into the soil.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
When The Times connected with Reyes, she was crouched down backstage at the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College in the Bronx.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
Jones’ wife Marie came out to the mound for the first pitch with daughters Jami and Staci, who threw the ball to Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman crouched behind the plate.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Kunkel, a freelance journalist at a protest outside an immigration detention center in Chicago on September 26, was crouched behind a van when an agent took aim from a safe perch behind a chain link fence.
—Bob Ortega, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026
People stood, crouched and leaned against cars, eating shawarma, nihari burgers, kunafa and stretchy ice cream.
—Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 8 Mar. 2026
Bhakta and his friends stayed inside, crouched down, until police arrived.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 8 Mar. 2026
Ten minutes before the start of Daniel Radcliffe’s one-man show on Broadway, Every Brilliant Thing, the actor is crouched in the aisle.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crouched
Verb
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Things are scary right now, but the Plums are still high school girls, huddled together in a strange place, their adrenaline levels high and their supervision levels suddenly low.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
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The other photo shows two of the cubs huddled in a corner of a habitat, with one eyeing the camera timidly.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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He was hunched over, his shoulders rounded beneath the material of his dark blue blazer; his strong, square features were glistening with sweat.—
Ben Mezrich,
Vanity Fair,
6 Apr. 2026
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Kids are still spending much of their classroom time hunched over a glass rectangle.—
Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Crouched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crouched. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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