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Recent Examples of crab
Noun
Their namesake bills can probe into the ground to snatch deep-burrowing creatures, whether crabs, shrimp or worms and other invertebrates. Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025 The marinated raw crab is bathed in fish sauce, garlic, chilis, cilantro, and lime juice and then chilled. Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
The 2020 crabbing season was officially set to begin Dec. 23, but price negotiations between crab fleets and seafood processors delayed the start until early January 2021. Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024 The 21-foot white Bayliner reportedly had six occupants — three adults and three juveniles — and had been crabbing off of Bodega. John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for crab
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crab
Noun
  • The total range is 424 bears at the low end of the estimate and 1,713 at the high end.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2025
  • In the Yellowstone region, the bear’s numbers have now risen to more than 700, surpassing recovery goals set by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Preservationists are complaining that Tranquillity’s plan would harm the open views in that part of town.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In another email to Instagram leaders in 2017, Systrom complained that Instagram got no new headcount despite a wide investment to grow the company’s video ambitions.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Mineral extraction has damaging social consequences in developing countries, where the impoverished are often compelled to work in unsafe and unhygienic conditions.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Sudden kicks, jumps, tackles, and awkward leg movements can damage groin muscles.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The audience screamed in approval for the coming out, as seen in a TikTok from the show.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 24 Apr. 2025
  • Benintendi then fouled off a fastball before ripping the next and sending it screaming toward the gap in right-center.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The spill killed 11 people and injured 17 others as 210 million gallons of crude oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico (recently renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America) for a total of 87 days.
    Terry Collins, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Memorial at Florida State University after a fatal shooting killed two people and injured several others.
    Kati Weis, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Kitchen Accessories Collectible kitchen accessories can range from regular-use items like beautiful copper pots to more decorative items, like vintage bread boxes and hand crank mixers.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2025
  • At the same time, Barnes was a crank of operatic grandiosity—thin-skinned, bellicose, distrustful, fickle, and vindictive.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The one from Rucker felt like a routine stinger, nothing to whine about.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • One of her horses bucked and whined as she was loaded onto a trailer Tuesday morning, not wanting to get packed as cargo in a shipping container.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • His rookie season was marred by an uneven second half, which was hindered by hand and foot injuries.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2025
  • His final collegiate season was marred by a shoulder injury and insufficient QB play, but Loveland still led the Wolverines in receptions (56), receiving yards (582) and receiving TDs (five).
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025

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“Crab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crab. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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