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Recent Examples of crouch
As outlined in the Shark Reef Marine Reserve fact sheet, during dive experiences here, visitors can crouch behind a small wall while sharks are hand-fed or given tuna heads dropped from a plastic bin.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2025
Officers then discovered the man, who was identified as Gamboa, with a minor gunshot wound, crouched down among a small group of people.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 23 June 2025
On Saturday, at an anti-Trump No Kings protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, a man reportedly appeared to be crouching behind a wall, while carrying what looked like an AR-15-style rifle.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
Dutton’s wife and children crouched down on the floor of the car, but Dutton’s oldest son, 7 years old, was hysterical and kept trying to crawl out of the car.
—Sally Ventura
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2025
Officers then discovered the man, who was identified as Gamboa, with a minor gunshot wound, crouched down among a small group of people.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 23 June 2025
On Saturday, at an anti-Trump No Kings protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, a man reportedly appeared to be crouching behind a wall, while carrying what looked like an AR-15-style rifle.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
Dutton’s wife and children crouched down on the floor of the car, but Dutton’s oldest son, 7 years old, was hysterical and kept trying to crawl out of the car.
—Sally Ventura
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crouch
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But there was another, more immediate problem: Several Republican holdouts were huddled somewhere in the sprawling Capitol complex, refusing to come to the chamber to cast their votes.—
Jay O'Brien,
ABC News,
22 July 2025
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Some neighbors stood eating on top of the hood of a car, while others huddled with American Red Cross volunteers who arrived to help.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
10 July 2025
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Streaming, with its binge model and personal-device availability, made viewing increasingly less about a family or group of friends gathering around a flat-screen and more about everyone balancing their laptop on their stomachs or hunching over their phones.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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The series of short social media videos follows Chit, a slightly awkward and slightly hunched office worker who sports a mean bowl cut and Jeffrey Dahmer-style glasses.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
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Security camera footage outside the clinic in the central Gaza city of Deir al Balah showed about a dozen people squatting in front of the clinic when a projectile explodes a few yards away, leaving bodies scattered.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Chicago Tribune,
10 July 2025
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So now these eight foreign fiends are in Djibouti, squatting in a shipping container on the U.S. Naval base there, guarded by 11 ICE agents who’d like to be home for Independence Day.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
2 July 2025
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“Crouch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crouch. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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