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Recent Examples of grub
Noun
Foothills Brewing is downtown's largest and oldest brewpub and offers a full menu of pub grub. Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2025 Visitors will want to save some room for ballpark grub, however, as the Oakland Athletics will relocate to Sutter Health Park for the 2025–2027 Major League Baseball seasons. Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Verb
Politics McCarthy’s vow to open Biden impeachment probe puts vulnerable California Republicans in a tough spot Sept. 12, 2023 His son Hunter, the subject of a special counsel investigation, may have shamelessly grubbed for money by trading on the family name. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023 Money-grubbing developers don’t care about residents. Mark Bisnow, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for grub 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grub
Noun
  • Lastly, rather than meeting people at the bar, go fill up your food plate.
    Jess Cording, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Simon’s Bar & Cafe was a favorite of legislative staffers and lobbyists from 1984 until its closure in November 2023, the go-to spot for end-of-session revelry and late-night plates of Chinese food.
    Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Ortiz recalls anecdotes from domestic laborers during the aftermath of the Woolsey fire—workers being hired to put out fires, employers evacuating but leaving their household workers behind to care for pets, workers left behind to clean toxic ash.
    Simmone Shah, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Read Article > The H-1B visa program helps corporations replace US workers with cheap foreign laborers who lack basic rights.
    Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • There are no heroes here, just Kidman fully immersing herself in a character for whom every action is an attack, for whom every word is a wheeze, and for whom every movement looks labored.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
  • It’s been almost a calendar year since the Sixers have seen that Embiid, the one who’s active on both ends of the floor, instead of laboring up and down.
    Tony Jones, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Fire crews were filling sandbags for communities while county workers installed barriers and cleared drainage pipes and basins.
    Marcio Jose Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Related Stories News Flavor Flav Launches Fundraiser for Black Families Displaced by L.A. Wildfires Shire and Sims are just two of the thousands of entertainment workers whose lives have been upended by the Los Angeles wildfires that tore through sections of the L.A. area starting Jan. 7.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Even under better times, Haiti has struggled to pull off elections.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Kansas City’s defense has struggled to stop quarterback runs.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extended citizenship to descendants of African slaves.
    Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Go and read random slave narratives and get their experience of the time.
    David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Despite them being one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference this season, New York still has some pieces to work with on the trade block.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The two worked together to trace the calls and found that a calling card was purchased at a Walmart in Panama City on April 9, 2004, hours before it was used to phone Mount Washington McDonald’s.
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One of the main courses is a sirloin steak sandwich with pesto sauce, Parmesan cheese, rocket leaves and ciabatta bread, whilst another is alfredo pasta.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The closest anything comes to fusion is the bread service, which pairs New England-style Parker House rolls, fresh from the oven and marshmallow-soft, with a lineup of compound butters, including one, lusciously saffron-infused, inspired by bouillabaisse, the Provençal seafood stew.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025

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“Grub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grub. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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