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Recent Examples of crouchedThe dance began with Irwin crouched atop a Jeep suped up for safari, with the junior conservationist correspondingly decked in the head-to-toe khaki uniform made famous by his dad.—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025 In one instance, a colleague entered Aber’s office to find an inmate crouched under his desk, according to an affidavit filed against Aber in the criminal case.—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025 Another photo from the roundup saw the Voyeurs actress crouched down while wearing a sheer beige top.—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025 These societies in southeastern Asia buried their dead mostly in flexed, tightly crouched, or squatting postures, often with traces of burning.—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025 And as Charlie Kirk fired up the crowd tossing hats, authorities say the suspect crouched and waited.—ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025 The crowd crouched – then sprinted away from the canopy.—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025 And over the past nine months, a team of judges has been measuring it, pinpointing the exact location of the wave’s base, then stacking images of Slebir’s crouched pose on top of each other like a totem pole up the face of the wave.—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025 Jason Varitek crouched behind home plate.—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Fellow wide receivers Chris Marshall and Cam Bates came over to celebrate with Brown before realizing he was still hunched over the ball and showed no signs of getting up.
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Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
2 Oct. 2025
Describing his attacker as a White man, six feet tall, about 200 pounds, and wearing a gray T-shirt and blue jeans, Heskett told Zajac the man had appeared to have been hunched near a tree when Heskett first saw him.
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