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Recent Examples on the WebVerb
On the evening of Nov. 19, 2020, Rupert Murdoch was watching TV and crawling the walls of his 18th-century mansion in the British countryside while under strict pandemic lockdown.
—Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
Gonna crawl into a cave now (edit room) and put it all together.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2023
Firefighters entered the tight space with rope, having to crawl at points in their search for the children, officials said.
—Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
Despite this interference, Antonelli recorded a video of cockroaches and other insects crawling all over one tenant’s dresser drawer.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
Consider, for instance, the Paphiopedilum, or slipper orchid, so named for the shoe-like appendage, called a labellum, into which pollinating insects crawl.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
Many hummingbird feeders, like the LaElvish Garden Hummingbird Feeder, come with an ant moat, which helps prevent ants from crawling into your feeder.
—Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2023
Must have ability to hike in strenuous conditions, have the courage to crawl...
—Caitlin O'kane, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
Legal scrutiny is intensifying for AI companies that populate their databases by crawling the web for faces.
—WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
Noun
The crawl is for movies.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2023
Progress on many other topics, such as gun laws and voter restrictions, has slowed to a crawl in recent days.
—Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
The current Green Line crawl is due to a number of issues, including bad ties and a water leak that corroded the tracks between the Boylston and Arlington stops.
—Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
The crawl is Saturday, Oct. 22, through Monday, Oct. 31.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
Ian’s destructive crawl across Florida brought extraordinary flooding and prompted hundreds of rescues by land, air and sea.
—Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
High mortgage rates have slowed new housing activity to a crawl.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
The Ravens slowed the game down to a crawl with a 17-play, 75-yard drive that ate up 10-plus minutes off the clock.
—Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
The bluster did accomplish what the company’s metaverse was built to do in the first place, though: distract us from the fact that Facebook’s user growth has slowed to a crawl, that the platform is losing ground to TikTok, and that it’s mired in controversy and moderation woes.
—Brian Merchant, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2022
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