Thesaurus results for CROUCHING

crouching

verb

present participle of crouch

as in huddling

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 crouching There’s nothing quite as humbling as crouching next to a random airport outlet. —

Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026 The 6-foot-3 Blackmon is crouching down to greet Mabel, who stood about 4-foot-7. —

Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2026 Borsutzki climbed out of the driver’s seat and sprinted toward the rupture in the road before crouching at the edge, a man pinned deep below crying out for help. —

Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026 Cluely’s offices were in a generally disheveled corner of the city, crouching near an elevated freeway. —

Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Nearly two dozen gunshots later, Palmer and Jones were dead, while London survived by crouching down in the backseat. —

Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026 There, detectives observed the men walking into an open space, crouching in nearby bushes and then fleeing the area at a high rate of speed in a vehicle, police said. —

Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 29 Jan. 2026 According to the outlet, a witness claimed a group of people saw the snow leopard crouching from a distance. —

Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026 State wildlife officials on Thursday said a mountain lion cub with an injured paw that was captured after being spotted crouching in the middle of a Castaic roadway is on the mend. —

City News Service, Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026

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But everyone else stripped down to their bathing suits, huddling in the heated confines of a womb-like space.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
These are parks that come alive in the winter, with warm temps and surprisingly vibrant ecosystems that thrive when the rest of the country is huddling under a blanket of snow and ice.

— Graham Averill, Outside, 23 Feb. 2026