as in snail
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late
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Recent Examples of crawler
Sourcing marketers are focusing heavily on semantic modeling—ensuring their product catalogs, material certifications and white papers are clean, structured and easily digestible for AI crawlers.
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Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
16 June 2026
For details on the DLR's work on rovers, crawlers & drones on Mars — the Valles Marineris Explorer project, visit the project's website.
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Leonard David,
Space.com,
31 May 2026
Last year, Cloudflare launched Pay Per Crawl in private beta, a product that lets publishers charge AI crawlers a flat per-request price across their domain.
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Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
This environment dictates utilization of sea-bed crawler unmanned systems these can be legged, tracked or can employ both for locomotion.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
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Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
16 June 2026
For details on the DLR's work on rovers, crawlers & drones on Mars — the Valles Marineris Explorer project, visit the project's website.
—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
31 May 2026
Last year, Cloudflare launched Pay Per Crawl in private beta, a product that lets publishers charge AI crawlers a flat per-request price across their domain.
—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
This environment dictates utilization of sea-bed crawler unmanned systems these can be legged, tracked or can employ both for locomotion.
—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawler
snail
Noun
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Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.
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The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.
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“Crawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawler. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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