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
Initially the system will apply by default to new users of Cloudflare services, plus sites that participated in an earlier effort to block crawlers.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
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
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
“And do you bond with the crawlers, too?”
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
