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Recent Examples of burrow
Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
Some animals, such as frogs and rodents, don't travel far and seek cover instead in underground burrows where they can be protected from the heat.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Alexandra Banner, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
This allows the eel to stay burrowed in the mud, yet still find prey and avoid being eaten.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Millions of red crabs are coming out of their burrows on Christmas Island in Australia to begin one of their largest migrations in years.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
Some animals, such as frogs and rodents, don't travel far and seek cover instead in underground burrows where they can be protected from the heat.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
Researchers in Australia are putting electronic backpacks onto burrowing cockroaches to help search for victims of earthquakes and other disasters.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
This allows the eel to stay burrowed in the mud, yet still find prey and avoid being eaten.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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While still a low-maintenance pick, this bird’s nest fern thrives when watered weekly and when situated near a sunny window due to its moderate light and water needs.—
Maggie Horton,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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Both small mammals and other birds' nest predators were observed visiting open-cup nests for the eggs—while only flying squirrels visited the nest boxes.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Still, the three shots that felt like the biggest daggers were all drops, especially two in the seventh game with Keys threatening to claw her way back into the set.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
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That’s because repressed emotions have a way of clawing their way back.—
Kevin Kruse,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
Verb
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During the battle, viewers saw a cameraman crouching in the corner for the shot.—
Esther Kang,
People.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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The deputies spotted the drag trail through the brush and followed it to the cat, still crouched over Taylen’s body.—
Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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There are no elaborate lairs where the spies do their business; characters just meet in restaurants or cars.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The marinated chicken then gets dredged into a flour mixture including spices like garlic and onion powder, paprika, seasoned salt, and cayenne pepper before getting deep fried.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
18 Dec. 2024
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Here's what the report shared about the latest on these efforts: Dredging of Bender Park boat launch: For the fourth time since 2013, County Parks plans to dredge the park's boat launch of sediment that has accumulated over time and now poses a risk to boats navigating the area.—
Maia Pandey,
Journal Sentinel,
26 Sep. 2024
Verb
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Perhaps for that reason, their remarks, made to largely friendly audiences, were couched in a tone of cautious belligerence.—
Alan Feuer,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The Simpsons are being couched for a limited time to make room for the Griffins.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Her house, though not destroyed, was at the edge of the burn area, and isn’t livable.—
Kate Sequeira,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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His only things were, there’s a house with a presence in it.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Interview 'Telling the Story of Addiction Doesn’t Always Save You from the Experience Of It': An Interview With Leslie Jamison Chantal Braganza The author of The Recovering on archival addiction narratives, excavating how things get better, and sugar.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
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The site extends 150 meters (around 500 feet) and includes approximately 200 giant footprints, according to the BBC — though the outlet notes that the tracks could extend even further into areas that have not yet been excavated.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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