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Recent Examples of burrow
Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
While temperatures on the surface rise and fall throughout the day, peaking in the heat of the afternoon and then cooling down in the nighttime, the temperature inside a burrow remains relatively constant.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
Early work personalizes the effects of colonialism, while later projects burrow inward.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The Burrowing Owl requires large tracts of open ground, preferably with areas of bare soil, for its underground nesting burrows.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
While temperatures on the surface rise and fall throughout the day, peaking in the heat of the afternoon and then cooling down in the nighttime, the temperature inside a burrow remains relatively constant.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
Getting signals and power out of these stacks requires vertical copper links that burrow through the silicon to reach the chip package’s substrate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
Early work personalizes the effects of colonialism, while later projects burrow inward.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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Past research has found that the horns may provide the bees with defense against competitors for floral resources, defense against females over nest sites, as well as collecting resin, pebble, or sand for cell closures.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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Seattle has a few blue-chip players who set the tone weekly, but facing this unit is like walking into a hornet’s nest and being swarmed from every direction.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Early in the second, the Nittany Lions moved sophomore and leading scorer Charlie Cerrato onto his line with Reese Laubach to try to kickstart their offense and claw their way back into the game.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Democrats managed to claw that seat back in 2024 only by a tight margin, in one of the most expensive House races in the country that year.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The exhibition features his maps and sullied backpack, toothbrush, bar of soap, and survival goods, along with photos of him sleeping on park benches, crouching on the banks of the Hudson in front of ice floes, and haunting the city.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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After a brief struggle for traction, the robot regained control by crouching slightly, mimicking a human posture to exert force.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The mid-century offered more literal interpretations of cave living, from The Flintstones (1960) to the villainous Bond lair, often hidden within or carved into cliffs.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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But the Demogorgon catches up, dragging Will into the decaying lair of Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), looking as menacing as ever.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour mixture, shaking off excess.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Southern Living,
23 Oct. 2025
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Other fresh fish were lightly dredged in flour, fried, baked, and then garnished with parsley and black walnuts.—
Victoria Flexner,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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These were gangsters, so they weren’t obliged to couch this any way but direct.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Sometimes the case for war’s inevitability is couched in expressions of rue and reluctance.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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How to prepare before strong winds approach Trim tree branches away from your house and power lines.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
12 Nov. 2025
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Namely, going after the drug traffickers themselves by raiding Mexican cartel trap houses and robbing their mules, using equipment borrowed from their parents including night-vision goggles and beanbag shotguns.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Back in 1915, Phys reported, a team excavated Margaret Island in Budapest and discovered the remains of a young man in a Dominican monastery.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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The team excavated several key places on the site, studied cores of soil and conducted an additional LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, survey of the area.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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