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as in food
substances intended to be eaten
after the game, we headed to the diner for some hearty grub
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as in laborer
a person who does very hard or dull work
you may have to spend some time working as a grub before challenging work comes your way
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as in to labor
to devote serious and sustained effort
grubbing away at the yard work before the first snow of the season
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Recent Examples of grub
Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2024
Those in attendance will get a chance to dance to live music, grub on classic American dishes and sip on glasses of Jet Fuel, a signature cocktail.
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 5 Oct. 2024
Mark Bisnow, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
No henchmen of adversarial intelligence services or money-grubbing fraudsters are going to abide by such a magnanimous international accord—even if governments or corporations pay it lip service.
—Robert Hackett, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2020
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Noun
Both beetles and moths go through a four-stage life cycle of egg, larva (grub), pupa, and adult.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2024
Those in attendance will get a chance to dance to live music, grub on classic American dishes and sip on glasses of Jet Fuel, a signature cocktail.
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 5 Oct. 2024
Verb
Money-grubbing developers don’t care about residents.
—Mark Bisnow, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
No henchmen of adversarial intelligence services or money-grubbing fraudsters are going to abide by such a magnanimous international accord—even if governments or corporations pay it lip service.
—Robert Hackett, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2020
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The question still looming over many in the food industry, however, is how two big variables will factor into food prices.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Instead of trying the food retrieval that had been trained on, the immigrants used the resident solution on their first try.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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But since 2010, changes in the populations that were migrating, and the failure of Congress to update the system with new legal channels for refugees and laborers, have made asylum the default access for migrants coming to the southwest border.Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
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Much like his 19th century predecessors, protection offers Trump an appeal to diverse constituencies: manufacturing interests, union laborers, declining industrial towns in swing states, voters without college educations and access to tech jobs.Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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Doctors are known for laboring under brutal schedules but a new generation wants more of a work-life balance.Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
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In Game 3, Freeman had a fifth-inning single but was removed in the eighth while laboring at the plate.Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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Sometime later, a passing pipeline company worker pulled the vehicle from the ditch.Ryan J. Foley, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
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The company issued a follow-up notification at 10:41 a.m. that workers responded to a vapor release while performing maintenance on equipment.Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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Thus, consumption of THCV can be beneficial for those who struggle with weight gain and/or food craving.Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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During this period of the Atlantic slave trade, nearly 300,000 enslaved persons were transported in slave ships from African ports to mainland North America and more than 3.4 million disembarked in the British and French West Indies.Ana Lucia Araujo / Made by History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Marvel’s Moon Knight Director Mohamed Diab has revealed fresh details about his new feature Lion, starring Egyptian megastar Mohamed Ramadan in a role inspired by Ancient Rome rebel slave Spartacus.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
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Officials are working with an anthropologist to determine whether that is true, KOB reported.Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The electric thrill of Sichuan pepper works well in sweet dishes, too.Megan Zhang, Saveur, 13 Nov. 2024
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However, an earlier sandwich reference comes from stories of Hillel the Elder, a rabbi who suggested a form of a sandwich for Passover, placing lamb and bitter herbs between pieces of unleavened matzah bread.Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2024
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Typically, Day of the Dead altars feature dishes, fruits, cigarettes, tequila, bread and favorite dishes.Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Grub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grub. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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