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- noun Plural form of
inchworm .
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Examples
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A lot of models were made, including ants, crabs, spiders, ladybugs and even two more called inchworms and nanos.
Anime Nano! 2010
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A self-proclaimed genius who claims to have been a near-miss Nobel laureate in physics, he regards most of the human race as "inchworms," submental cretins who aren't fit to inhabit the same universe he does.
The Clog 2009
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I never see cabbage looper caterpillars - green "inchworms" with white stripes - on my plants.
SFGate: Top News Stories Pam Peirce 2009
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"They picked anything in the room and estimated how many" inchworms "there were.
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Some pilgrims choose to prostrate themselves the entire length of the journey, sometimes hundreds of miles, and resemble human inchworms as they creep ever closer to their holy destination.
Rachel Dickinson: Tibet Before the Train (PHOTOS) Rachel Dickinson 2010
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Some pilgrims choose to prostrate themselves the entire length of the journey, sometimes hundreds of miles, and resemble human inchworms as they creep ever closer to their holy destination.
Rachel Dickinson: Tibet Before the Train (PHOTOS) Rachel Dickinson 2010
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Some pilgrims choose to prostrate themselves the entire length of the journey, sometimes hundreds of miles, and resemble human inchworms as they creep ever closer to their holy destination.
Rachel Dickinson: Tibet Before the Train (PHOTOS) Rachel Dickinson 2010
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Some pilgrims choose to prostrate themselves the entire length of the journey, sometimes hundreds of miles, and resemble human inchworms as they creep ever closer to their holy destination.
Rachel Dickinson: Tibet Before the Train (PHOTOS) Rachel Dickinson 2010
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Some pilgrims choose to prostrate themselves the entire length of the journey, sometimes hundreds of miles, and resemble human inchworms as they creep ever closer to their holy destination.
Rachel Dickinson: Tibet Before the Train (PHOTOS) Rachel Dickinson 2010
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There were also the inchworms that climbed the tree trunks.
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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