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Recent Examples of burrow
Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
In the two clips, the creature was a young animal who emerged from a small burrow and walked a few seconds into the distance.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Recognize signs of hypothermia The signs of hypothermia in pets are whining, shivering, anxiety, slowing down, or looking for a warm place to burrow.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
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Noun
There, captured in two separate clips, was a young animal emerging from a small burrow and walking a few seconds into the distance across a rocky landscape.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
In the two clips, the creature was a young animal who emerged from a small burrow and walked a few seconds into the distance.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
The book does not have a chance to burrow into our heart.
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Recognize signs of hypothermia The signs of hypothermia in pets are whining, shivering, anxiety, slowing down, or looking for a warm place to burrow.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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But active nests like those the Tennis Club’s newest residents made cannot be removed or relocated.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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As the waterways are taken over by this single plant species, less and less habitat is available for our native wildlife to nest, eat, and breed.—
Peg Aloi,
The Spruce,
5 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The always-on workday killed the lunch break, but now workers are using AI to claw it back.—
Kristin Stoller,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Elon Musk’s xAI is sending engineers directly into the offices of prospective corporate clients in an attempt to claw business customers away from rivals OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.—
Carmen Arroyo,
Bloomberg,
20 Mar. 2026
Verb
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At the other end of the pitch, Robert Lewandowski crouches down on his haunches, eyes looking everywhere and nowhere, their nothingness saying everything.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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When The Times connected with Reyes, she was crouched down backstage at the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College in the Bronx.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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And then there’s newcomer, a disruptor given the name Pumpkin (Lola Fung), who formerly worked at a pretzel shop and enters this lair with suspicion.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Both are one-night-in-hell slashers about two estranged sisters forced to fight their way out of a lair of rich people who’ve joined a devil cult and are hellbent on sacrificing them to their dark lord.—
Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Working with 1 tofu slab at a time, dredge tofu in flour mixture, gently pressing to adhere.—
Gretchen McKay,
Twin Cities,
26 Mar. 2026
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Working with 1 cutlet at a time, dredge in flour mixture, shaking off excess, then dip in egg, letting excess drip back into bowl.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
Verb
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One associate dean couched the misstep as a result of learning pains tied to the adoption of new technology.—
Emily Hodgson Anderson,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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And no matter what anyone does to look younger, Miller wants women to stop with the negative self-talk about aging that’s often couched in seemingly harmless jokes.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Breakfast is included, a generous European-style buffet with eggs, cured meats, fresh fruit, house granola, muffins, and flaky pastries.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Apr. 2026
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Horner showed investigators where to find her body, which was recovered two days later at a site along the Trinity River less than 10 miles from her father’s house, authorities have said.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Most cities cannot excavate their way to safety fast enough.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Greenberg was excavating there around the same time CBS' Bob Simon visited in 1980.—
Seth Doane,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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