Thesaurus results for CROUCHED

crouched

verb

past tense of crouch

as in huddled

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 crouched 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 There is a drawing of a child crouched on a ride-on suitcase, notes for a joke Fleming posted online in January. —

Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 Her husband pushed her into the bathroom while others crouched down in the hallway. —

Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026 Inside a drop-like form with a long, straight tail is the lower part of a human body, crouched and holding its knees below a large sphere with an open perforation at the top. —

Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026

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After a bipartisan group of senators huddled on the Senate floor, one Democrat left the talks shaking his head, saying he was frustrated at the state of negotiations.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
Twin Lakes also stand out, huddled in their alpine embrace and flanked by proud granite slopes.

— Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026