as in to protrude
to extend outward beyond a usual point
houses in the town commonly have second stories that beetle over the ground floors, and the overhang is known as a "bump"
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Recent Examples of beetle
Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
Alternative prey include whiteflies, beetle and moth larvae, and even fungi and other types of plant matter.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Black-and-yellow taxis beetled along Apollo Bunder, the road in front of the hotel.
—Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
Noun
On the North Shore, about 80 trees are slated for removal because of the beetle, the station reported.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
Alternative prey include whiteflies, beetle and moth larvae, and even fungi and other types of plant matter.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
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However, a closer look at the footage revealed that the insects never touched the spider webs with their protruding front legs.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
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The image, showing two bare feet protruding from a gap between rocks, was impossible to escape on the internet this week.Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2024
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Think of trust as a foundation, and each lie is a hammer slowly chipping away at it.Sho Dewan, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Sean Combs’ physical violence was allegedly directed at both his romantic partners and personal employees, with the music mogul accused of once attempting to beat down a woman’s door with a hammer.Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2024
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Cleavage forming, hormones erupting, hair poking through in what feels like strange places and wanting to dance on the peripherals of sexiness.Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Dec. 2024
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This cute sweatshirt pokes fun at the sport’s quirky name with a watercolor print of two pickles playing pickleball.Cai Cramer, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Walker showed me a video of the fingers surviving blows from a mallet.James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Place a piece of plastic wrap on top and use a meat mallet to flatten.Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2024
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Just as the late Peter Lorre’s bulging eyes remain his most enduring feature, teeth will be Carrey’s long after he’s gone.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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Now my trimmings cabinet is a bulging mass of treasures awaiting their moment.Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 16 Sep. 2024
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In mid-November, prune the rose to remove dead and diseased canes.Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
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The unhinged duo struck Valez with their fists and a cane before the male attacker brought Luna into the room, accused him of stealing a moped battery and beat him to death, Kenny said.Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
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Many people are up in arms, acting like parent company JLR has smashed a kitten with a sledgehammer.James Morris, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Two suspects used a sledgehammer to smash a glass display to steal three Chanel handbags that were said to be worth $10,000 each.Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
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Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
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“Beetle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beetle. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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