diff --git a/crawl4ai/async_webcrawler.py b/crawl4ai/async_webcrawler.py
index 36b999fd1..3ce3e4534 100644
--- a/crawl4ai/async_webcrawler.py
+++ b/crawl4ai/async_webcrawler.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from .__version__ import __version__ as crawl4ai_version
+from .__version__ import __version__ as crawl4ai_version
 import os
 import re
 import sys
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ async def arun(
             try:
                 self.logger.verbose = config.verbose
 
+                kwargs.pop('verbose', None)  # prevent conflict with **kwargs forwarding
                 # Default to ENABLED if no cache mode specified
                 if config.cache_mode is None:
                     config.cache_mode = CacheMode.ENABLED
@@ -1186,4 +1187,4 @@ async def aseed_urls(
                 seeding_config
             )
         else:
-            raise ValueError("`domain_or_domains` must be a string or a list of strings.")
\ No newline at end of file
+            raise ValueError("`domain_or_domains` must be a string or a list of strings.")
diff --git a/tests/test_verbose_bug.py b/tests/test_verbose_bug.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8ecf486d
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