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Recent Examples of burrow
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
22 June 2026
Unlike typical maggots, which consume dead or decaying tissue, screwworm larvae burrow into wounds and feed on healthy tissue, causing severe damage.
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Tori Mason,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
The maggots, in particular, will burrow into the fruit, so throw out any infested apples.
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Helena Madden,
Martha Stewart,
31 May 2026
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Noun
Gassing of the muskrat runs, or burrows, was also tried.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
22 June 2026
Unlike typical maggots, which consume dead or decaying tissue, screwworm larvae burrow into wounds and feed on healthy tissue, causing severe damage.
—
Tori Mason,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
Verb
Screwworm flies cause myiasis, an infection of flesh-eating maggots that burrow into the skin of living animals, causing serious and often fatal damage.
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Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
The maggots, in particular, will burrow into the fruit, so throw out any infested apples.
—
Helena Madden,
Martha Stewart,
31 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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Recently, a giant egg appeared in a nest atop the pillar beside Pinky’s.
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Video posted by the preservation group from a camera aimed at the nest tree showed Sandy flying out of frame.
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As the critical 72-hour rescue window closes in Venezuela, families claw through rubble in La Guaira and beyond after a pair of earthquakes left hundreds dead and tens of thousands missing.
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Instead of allowing criminals to steal funds and attempting to claw them back later, the administration is now using advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence to detect and block fraudulent claims before the money ever leaves the Treasury.
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The image in question features Grande crouched on the ground while sucking a lollipop and loving a happy black dog.
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The first showed him walking hand-in-hand with his sons, and the second showed Jack crouched down in a church pew as one of his sons played with toys, surrounded by coloring books and stickers.
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But what was more notable was that the sandwich shop had a portal to a wizard's lair, which is where the Russo kids trained to become the only standing wizard family.
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On yet another stage, a set acting as a Detroit basement is decorated with bathtubs and grimy plastic curtains made to look like the lair of a vampire group called the Fang Gang.
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When drought tightens the channel, water managers, dredge crews, and lock operators must communicate with towboat companies and shippers nearly every moment.
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It’s then dredged in seasoned flour—key for both browning and flavor—before pan-frying in a mixture of olive oil and butter.
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Perhaps a book that couched Castaneda’s story more deeply in the context of the ’70s counterculture and the nature of cults past and present would make his story clearer.
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Another helpful exercise, McCoy says, is to couch potentially thorny or negative interactions in the context of an overall positive situation.
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The heatwave has been significant enough to prompt major fashion houses to accommodate last-minute schedule changes.
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In the Independence standoff in the 700 block of Brookside Avenue at what police believed to be Sanchez-Munoz’s primary residence, firefighters had to put out a blaze in the house, but the man was not located there.
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In addition to excavating the property, investigators have seized financial records, adoption records and business records.
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Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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