as in snail
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of crawler
Reddit also has implemented safeguards to block bots and web crawlers from scraping its data.
—
Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 6 June 2025
The community is also developing collaborative tools to help protect against these crawlers.
—Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2025
Update your website's robots.txt file to explicitly allow access to legitimate AI crawlers like OpenAI's GPTBot and Google's AI systems, while still blocking problematic scrapers.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Brands and retailers’ offerings are ingested by OpenAI’s technology so long as they aren’t opted out of its search crawler, OAI-SearchBot.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 28 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for crawler
Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 6 June 2025
The community is also developing collaborative tools to help protect against these crawlers.
—Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2025
Update your website's robots.txt file to explicitly allow access to legitimate AI crawlers like OpenAI's GPTBot and Google's AI systems, while still blocking problematic scrapers.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Brands and retailers’ offerings are ingested by OpenAI’s technology so long as they aren’t opted out of its search crawler, OAI-SearchBot.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 28 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for crawler
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawler
snail
Noun
-
Slugs, snails, and even earwigs will often congregate in these damp spots and be much easier to collect.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 July 2025
-
The snail itself wasn’t found with the shells, but the shell was enough to diagnose the animal, Czaja said.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
Cite this Entry
“Crawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawler. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share