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Recent Examples of crouch
Bhakta and his friends stayed inside, crouched down, until police arrived.
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Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 8 Mar. 2026
There’s nothing quite as humbling as crouching next to a random airport outlet.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
Ten minutes before the start of Daniel Radcliffe’s one-man show on Broadway, Every Brilliant Thing, the actor is crouched in the aisle.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
The 6-foot-3 Blackmon is crouching down to greet Mabel, who stood about 4-foot-7.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2026
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Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 8 Mar. 2026
There’s nothing quite as humbling as crouching next to a random airport outlet.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
Ten minutes before the start of Daniel Radcliffe’s one-man show on Broadway, Every Brilliant Thing, the actor is crouched in the aisle.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
The 6-foot-3 Blackmon is crouching down to greet Mabel, who stood about 4-foot-7.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crouch
Verb
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We were huddled shoulder to shoulder on the floor at my bedroom door, listening at the decent-size crack.—
Kate Crane,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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Others huddle in tents pulled together from sheets of tarp along the curving coastal corniche or around Horsh Beirut, a park of pine trees on the outskirts of an area of the southern suburbs known as Dahiyeh.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Just off the reception, Japanese and international creatives in preppy suits hunch over MacBooks slurping strawberry matcha lattes with Tokyo’s skyline forming their Zoom backdrop.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Mar. 2026
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His skin looks all messed up and he's hunched over in pain, hearing noises.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Bend your standing knee and squat down while keeping balance.—
Jim Diehl CSCS,
Outside,
29 Mar. 2026
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Ion has been squatting in the basement of an apartment building, which is set to be levelled to make way for a luxury hotel called the Kontinental Boutique.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Crouch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crouch. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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