DRAGGERS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

draggers

noun

plural of dragger

as in snails

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others we quickly left the draggers behind and sprinted up the hill

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Scientists rescued 34 endangered humped tree snails from Guam by collecting them in empty peanut butter jars ahead of a powerful typhoon.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
She and her hundreds of pet snails are visited by a young man named Edward Ridgeway (Alden Ehrenreich) who has been sent by her American publisher to convince her to sign a contract to write one more Ripley novel.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 26 Aug. 2026

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Everyone took the Meta keyword tag seriously and the practice of utilizing ‘white text on a white background’ to hide hidden keywords was a legitimate tactic that webmasters would use to include keywords in their website for search engine crawlers.

— Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
The website security provider helps companies protect against AI crawlers.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026

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