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Recent Examples of claw
Some, assuredly, still to form after clawing with Timberwolves in a regular-season night somehow unlike any other in a career of firsts.
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2025
The Bulls have overcome an underwhelming start to the season to claw their way back into a likely third consecutive appearance in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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Kelsey Grammer has clawed his way back to the MCU.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Travis Kelce has successfully clawed his way into Happy Gilmore 2.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2025
The Bulls have overcome an underwhelming start to the season to claw their way back into a likely third consecutive appearance in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors
Kelsey Grammer has clawed his way back to the MCU.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Travis Kelce has successfully clawed his way into Happy Gilmore 2.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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Then, just this year, two major campaigns, Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon, burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure programs and penetrated telecommunications networks, allowing vast capabilities to spy on Americans.—
James Lamond,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, researchers discovered tube-like structures likely the result of boring or burrowing by an unknown life form.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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On the Better Business Bureau’s website, 939 customer reviews give the company an average 1.28 rating out of 5, offering lacerating complaints about dirty and broken equipment, delivery delays, nightmarish customer service, improper billings, and harassing sales and collection calls.—
Peter Elkind,
ProPublica,
10 Mar. 2025
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Bong Joon Ho Comments South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite, a lacerating thriller about a family of grifters who overplay their hand, is arguably the greatest film of the past decade.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Thirty-five engineers went down shoveling coal into the boilers to keep the deck lit where lifeboats were being launched and to keep the wireless room powered.—
Sean Kingsley,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2025
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My husband quickly shoveled a path to our garage and the raccoon was more than grateful for the help.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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The station also cut from its marketing department and others, resulting in a total 15% cut across the nonprofit.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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While this page supports the goal of cutting red tape and saving tax dollars, every American should be aware that the CFPB, now sidelined, has recovered over $20 billion in financial relief for U.S. consumers since Congress launched it after the 2008 market crash.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
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The plan includes 124 projects designed to dredge sand, rebuild degraded marshes, and add levees, floodgates and storm surge barriers.—
Adeel Hassan,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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Just ask Rick Bragg, who has spent a lifetime in the South cultivating a love story with the dish and forming his own stubborn beliefs about everything from the seasoning to how the chicken is dredged.—
Rick Bragg,
Southern Living,
31 Mar. 2025
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In surgery, certain risks are universal—infection, hematoma and seroma (collections of blood or fluid under the skin), swelling, bruising, pain, and poor healing, to name a few.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
10 Apr. 2025
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The band is wide enough to avoid creating rolls, while not bruising my armpits with underwire.—
Andrea Jordan,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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Hard-line opposition figures contend that the threats to Maduro’s regime have so far lacked sufficient menace and credibility to scare Maduro’s supporters out of their money-grubbing sloth.—
Ivan Briscoe,
Foreign Affairs,
11 May 2020
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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 thrill of the rush is what got kids on the run as their parents tried to direct them to areas not yet excavated.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2025
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Underground is a contemporary interpretation of the Roman baths excavated in nearby Cimiez, with a warm tepidarium, a hot caldarium, and a frigidarium, or cold plunge.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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