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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
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
See nature in action as gopher tortoises burrow in the dunes and shorebirds wade in the surf.
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Ana Pelayo Connery,
Travel + Leisure,
16 June 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
When the mosquito lands on the fungus, its hook-like spores burrow through the insect’s exoskeleton and kill it within days.
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Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
See nature in action as gopher tortoises burrow in the dunes and shorebirds wade in the surf.
—
Ana Pelayo Connery,
Travel + Leisure,
16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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Luna began the day hopping around, perching on the various trees near the nest.
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Like many nations, China is facing a generational challenge in the form of 118 million empty-nest senior citizens who might not mind someone’s company—even if that someone periodically receives over-the-air updates.
Verb
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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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Yet every bit of critique was couched as serving a larger goal for both of them.
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Thankfully, there are self-aware jabs as well, and it’s all couched in a character- and ensemble-centric ending that has hearty portions that help the random sour bite go down smoothly.
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Now that Love's eight children are all grown up and out of the house, the family has opted to sell the home and look for something smaller near Lake Tahoe, according to the listing agency.
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Plaintiffs have used internal documents from the companies to allege that, in house, people have long recognized a correlation between NEC and the use of preterm formulas made from cow’s milk.
Verb
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The crash site was forest in 1944, but it was later excavated for rice cultivation, Fong told Jackson.
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While Freddy was in Boston mourning Germany’s defeat, online sleuths excavated the least-savory tidbits from his X posting history.
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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