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Recent Examples of grovel
At which point, according to her friends, Brenner would grovel and beg her to keep him.
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Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
The man, referred to in court documents as John Doe #2, pleaded with the crowd to not beat him up, according to prosecutors, and groveled while on his knees.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
Olga Rei and Valentine Uhovski Several weeks later Socialite Rank published a letter purporting to be from Palermo, groveling for the acceptance of New York's socialites.
—Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 17 May 2023
Right-wing politicians like Ted Cruz groveled before him, seeking his blessing so that the base didn’t turn on them.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
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Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
The man, referred to in court documents as John Doe #2, pleaded with the crowd to not beat him up, according to prosecutors, and groveled while on his knees.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
Olga Rei and Valentine Uhovski Several weeks later Socialite Rank published a letter purporting to be from Palermo, groveling for the acceptance of New York's socialites.
—Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 17 May 2023
Right-wing politicians like Ted Cruz groveled before him, seeking his blessing so that the base didn’t turn on them.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grovel
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Between the use of a speedboat as a weapon, the unceremonious and shocking murder of Billy Magnussen's big bad, and all that aggressive stabbing with a shard of wood, director Doug Liman made sure to keep audiences gasping and cringing until the very end.EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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The small market teams are cringing for a number of reasons these days - the deferred money being thrown around by the Dodgers, the daunting Soto sweepstakes and the huge amount of leftover cash that will be spread around a number of far inferior bats, to name a few.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Some sailors clung to mooring lines, crawling across to find safety.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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The creature then rips her mouth open and crawls inside.EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jennifer Urban, 2nd coach ever for Naperville North girls volleyball, leaves ‘dream job’ after making real impact Called up to varsity, sophomore guard Abe Martinez doesn’t flinch for West Aurora.Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2024
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Last year, many retailers didn’t flinch under similar circumstances and many still wound up having a successful season.Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
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That is still low by historical standards, although the rate has crept up from 3.7% at the start of the year.Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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That may allow patchwork-style legislation to creep into the AI sector.Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
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The staff member can be seen cowering down to fend off the attack and then turns and squares up to the irate passenger, who’s wearing a green colored top and army green pants.Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2024
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Colin the Janitor crawling down a hallway with his black tongue wagging at a cowering woman, and the true image of hell incarnate, Pyramid Head, literally ripping the skin suit off of live bodies should shake you to your core.Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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Reached by a real asphalted road, which snakes around the mountainside, the mountain also affords spectacular panoramic views of wooded plains way below, stretching to the horizon.John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
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At the recruiting expo, as people stood in snaking lines that sometimes stretched longer than those for the night’s afterparties, all the big players were accounted for: Netflix, Axon, Meta, Google, Oracle.Jason Parham, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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Yip says features and design elements, everything like a pocket placement to how a jacket may work with gloves—or even how smooth or stiff the zipper sliding action is—is all under consideration when designing.Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Take in sweeping landmark views from the dining area, where sliding glass doors open onto a wraparound terrace with an outdoor kitchen alongside a pergola-shaded alfresco dining space, a fire pit and a plunge pool.Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
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But a python is slithering around Peninsula, south of Cleveland.Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2024
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By the thousands, the creatures converge, slithering through the waterlogged soil, propelled by their flagella.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Grovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grovel. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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