creepers

plural of creeper

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Noun
  • Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The creepy crawlers were discovered in upside-down plastic tubs, and many of them died.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That includes September’s Aloha Festivals, celebrating Hawaiian traditions, and the annual Kāhuli Festival at the Bishop Museum in October, a unique family-friendly event spotlighting the vital role of Hawaiian land snails in preserving biodiversity.
    Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Now the company has hundreds of preorders from customers looking to use the machines for various applications, including assembling electronics and even processing snails to be shipped to France for escargot, reported Tech Crunch.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite some stragglers, the big picture is of soaring demand for AI, but even with the vast sums being invested in European data centers, supply is still struggling to keep up.
    Tasmin Lockwood, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Creepers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creepers. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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