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But the wall’s rough texture is expected to encourage animals like coral, crustaceans and snails to attach to it.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025 -
However, predators like sea stars and snails have evolved olfactory receptors specifically tuned to detect these compounds, turning the barnacles’ defensive mechanism into a homing beacon.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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Alan is the name of the neighborhood creeper, who seems to be fixated on Becka.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
17 Jan. 2025
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Wear creepers attached to boots to prevent slipping on clear ice. Carry a spud bar to check the ice while walking to new areas.—
Maia Pandey,
Journal Sentinel,
18 Dec. 2024
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Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
4 Dec. 2024
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The birth of Spencer’s The first generation of shoppers to get hooked on Spencer’s weren’t the mallrat slackers of Gen-X or even the forever youthful Baby Boomers.—
Mark Dent,
thehustle.co,
6 Dec. 2024
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Whether financial costs, share price impacts, brand, customer trust or loyalty, third-party liability, or legal costs, the costs and expenses of these incidents will only increase for the boardroom laggards.—
Bob Zukis,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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Federal Realty Investment Trust is the biggest laggard, down 6.3% in January.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
8 Jan. 2025
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Before the update, website owners could restrict Google from crawling the results of internal searches, but crawlers at the time were now automatically able to discern which pages were deemed important to index.—
Elaine Mallon,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
27 Oct. 2024
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Transcription provides crawlers with valuable content to index, potentially improving your search ranking.—
Beth Worthy,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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