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Recent Examples of claw
Temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) while migrants screamed and banged the walls of the trailer for help or tried to claw their way out, investigators said.
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Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
Others were digging a multitude of holes, clawing for hidden underground cells.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
Even after corporations clawed at the it-girl craze and spoiled the memes, Charli XCX strutted onward, unfazed, with high-profile remixes that gifted Brat’s songs a second life.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 29 Jan. 2025
After missing 11 of 12 shots to start the game and falling behind by 15 midway through the first quarter, the Bucks made nine in a row, clawing their way back to within three at the end of the frame.
—Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
Others were digging a multitude of holes, clawing for hidden underground cells.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
Even after corporations clawed at the it-girl craze and spoiled the memes, Charli XCX strutted onward, unfazed, with high-profile remixes that gifted Brat’s songs a second life.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 29 Jan. 2025
After missing 11 of 12 shots to start the game and falling behind by 15 midway through the first quarter, the Bucks made nine in a row, clawing their way back to within three at the end of the frame.
—Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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Owners should fill the bottom of the enclosures with 6 to 15 inches of bedding to allow the animal to burrow, Adler said.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
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The depths would have provided refuge for some soil-dwelling invertebrates, and, for the most part, burrowing small mammals like mice and kangaroo rats should have been able to descend deep enough to avoid the heat.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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Everything that follows, however, is emotionally lacerating, conveyed on the children’s distraught, confused faces, and hitting Dad like a ton of bricks.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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The Democrats today recall the Whigs lacerated by Marx in nineteenth-century Britain, another liberal party tied to an arrogant economic elite.—
Matthew Karp,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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No one died during the eruption itself, but one person did suffer a fatal heart attack while shoveling the ash.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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While powdery snow is loved by skiers, wet snow is hard to shovel (but great for making snowmen).—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Today, Meaghan Garvey offers an ontological bonus cut from her time in Sweden with King Nothingg.—
Meaghan Garvey,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2025
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People will chew on the Broadway first of an Othello directed and lead-produced by black men—Leon and Brian Anthony Moreland, respectively—and cut their assumptions about that to fit their pre-existing views.—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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Most of the county’s other coastal lagoons also have been dredged in recent decades, though less frequently, to preserve wetlands habitats and for other environmental reasons.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Now, researchers in London have dated dozens of bones dredged from the river, creating a comprehensive database that has dispelled longstanding theories about why the river came to serve as the final resting place for so many people.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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This may have additive effects with blood thinners, increasing your risk of bruising and bleeding side effects.—
Melissa Nieves,
Verywell Health,
18 Feb. 2025
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Matt, a respected veteran journalist on the documentary scene, was left shaken and bruised (as seen in the two images below) by the incident but didn’t need to go to hospital.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie as told by Craig Brown Air Supply The Constant Gardener Spring is in the air, and AIR SUPPLY’s latest collection is ripe for the picking.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
23 Mar. 2024
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The site extends about 500 feet and includes approximately 200 footprints, according to BBC, though the outlet said the tracks could extend even further into areas that have not yet been excavated.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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Thankfully, the archaeologists use care to both excavate and preserve such sites for future investigations as well.—
Smithsonian magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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