CRAWLERS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

crawlers

noun

plural of crawler

as in snails

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 crawlers Dispose of Fall Decorations Seasonal decor like pumpkins and gourds also unintentionally invite an infestation of creepy crawlers. — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 16 Oct. 2026 The crawlers wander about the plants for a short period of time and then begin to feed and create a waxy covering. — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026 Giant sectionals gave space for everyone to sit in the first floor living room, with plenty of floor space for crawlers and new walkers to safely explore. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026 The design and tech company Mixfont has created Decoy Font, which promises to hide your text from AI crawlers. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 Everyone took the Meta keyword tag seriously and the practice of utilizing ‘white text on a white background’ to hide hidden keywords was a legitimate tactic that webmasters would use to include keywords in their website for search engine crawlers. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026 The website security provider helps companies protect against AI crawlers. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026 Cloudflare’s new architecture allows content owners to set a minimum price and AI crawlers to set a maximum bid, and lets the magic of a two-sided marketplace take it from there. — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 7 July 2026 The distinction matters because some crawlers serve multiple purposes simultaneously. — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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snails

Noun

Holed up in her brutalist home in the Swiss alps with her pet snails, she is approached by a handsome young publisher from New York (Alden Ehrenreich) with the impossible task of convincing her to write another book in her Ripley series.

— Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
The researchers found a population deep in a Japanese mountain valley where left- and right-coiling snails can mate and exchange genes.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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