as in to protrude
to extend outward beyond a usual point
houses in the town commonly have second stories that beetle over the ground floors, and the overhang is known as a "bump"
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Recent Examples of beetle
Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
Allure Editors, Allure, 21 Oct. 2024
In particular, aphids and cucumber beetles eat away at the petals and foliage, which is most harmful to small, young plants.
—Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
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Black-and-yellow taxis beetled along Apollo Bunder, the road in front of the hotel.
—Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
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Falcone took inspiration from shimmery beetle wings for this autumnal, perfect-for-Thanksgiving-dinner manicure, which can be done with an olive green, like Pop-arazzi in Retro Remix, or even an orange red, like Cirque Colors in Life on Mars.
—Allure Editors, Allure, 21 Oct. 2024
In particular, aphids and cucumber beetles eat away at the petals and foliage, which is most harmful to small, young plants.
—Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
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In 1970, Smithson traveled to the Great Salt Lake’s Rozel Point peninsula, northwest of Salt Lake City, and arranged 6,000 tons of local black basalt rock into a 1,500-foot-long, protruding line, which reaches into the lake and curls counterclockwise into a spiral.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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The attack was foiled when a Secret Service agent spotted a firearm protruding from the bushes.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Many people have yet to learn that an industrial factory outside of Boston designs, casts, blasts, rolls, hammers, buffs and tests at least a million Zildjian cymbals a year.Brittney Melton, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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Their heads appeared to have been bashed in with a hammer that lay near the bodies.Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
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Much of Lame's content pokes fun at life hacks, which, in his view, are baloney.Ari Daniel, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
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In a video Bunnie XO posted to Instagram on Christmas Day, the couple playfully pokes fun at Bunnie XO’s seeming lack of baking skills.Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2024
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The precursor of the xylophone and marimba, a balafon is made by carefully cutting 21 wooden slats into different lengths, fixing them atop hallow calabashes, and striking them with mallets wound with the gum and sap of a rubber tree.Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
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Walker showed me a video of the fingers surviving blows from a mallet.James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Her eyes bulged in disbelief as Nina walked into the room.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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In severe cases, the intestine can bulge into the inguinal canal, causing an inguinal hernia.1 Varicocele is also usually painless but can sometimes cause a dull ache or pain.Josephine Hessert, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
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Hard freezes, ice, and snow will damage or break canes, making plants more susceptible to pests and disease.Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2024
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The age this particular persona is supposed to represent remains ambiguous in the scene, but the Jackal uses a cane and maintains a sense of frailty in his body, both of which contribute to another visual iteration of geriatric Redmayne.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
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Three of the crew jumped out of the car and, yet again, used sledgehammers and hammers, to get into a display case.Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
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One of the workers took out a sledgehammer and smashed it.Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
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Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
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“Beetle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beetle. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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