crawler
noun
a person or thing that crawls.
crawlers
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pluralof crawler.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Time is helping advertisers get their messages in front of bots, using a sort of Trojan horse approach—creating text-based ads that regular readers never see but that AI crawlers might find.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
If there’s been an even more difficult task than policing predatory A.I. crawlers, it’s been keeping Reddit interactions personal, healthy, and as bot-free as possible.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025
Mr Srinivas denied accusations that its crawlers ignored robots.txt instructions in an interview with Fast Company last June.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
When Adam Cooper came across an old junkyard filled with RVs and rock crawlers in South Central, he immediately saw its potential.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
“Most of the creatures in the Underland, the crawlers, the bats, the fish, they have no need of light. We humans are lost without it.”
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
