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Recent Examples of burrow
Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
While prairie dog colonies are asleep, the ferrets sweep into their burrows and catch them by surprise.
—Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
Lauren David, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2024
Since it’s buried underground, most animals are excluded, although wire mesh is recommended if burrowing animals become a problem.
—Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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Noun
The western variety doesn’t even dig its own underground burrows.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
While prairie dog colonies are asleep, the ferrets sweep into their burrows and catch them by surprise.
—Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
Verb
Handal recommends discarding any fruit that has a crack or crevice as the insects can hide and burrow in the fruit.
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2024
Since it’s buried underground, most animals are excluded, although wire mesh is recommended if burrowing animals become a problem.
—Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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Granite can be of various colors, dotted with the black mica nests.David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The ways dinosaurs grew up, reproduced and made nests used to be treated as mysteries, Manias notes, but now can be presented in detail.Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Advertisement Fighting, scratching and clawing all the way to the end.Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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In 2024, Creed quietly clawed its way back from internet punchline to real, honest-to-god, record-selling rock band.James Pero, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
Verb
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Zhenya crouches there in the hallway, cradling her hands, her jacket released.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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In the opening scene of the third season of Somebody Somewhere, Bridget Everett’s character, Sam Miller, crouches on the floor of a bar, talking baby-talk to a dog.Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
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All who enter the rear lair get the first-class treatment with heat and massage functions and two power-adjustable recliner seats.Josh Max, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Another rebooted tradition: the cast signing the lair, which Gomez and Henrie helped instruct the new actors on during their first days on the set.Julia MacCary, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
Verb
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The dunes will be built from sand and sediment that will be dredged from the gulf or local ship channels.Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
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State of play: Workers are set to dredge and pipe 140,000 cubic yards of sand — enough to fill 43 Olympic swimming pools — to the shore between First and 22nd avenues, per a county news release.Kathryn Varn, Axios, 16 July 2024
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Some American journalists and politicians couched their desire to round up and imprison Japanese Americans in humanitarian terms: to protect them from potential mob violence.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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But the research, released by secondhand wholesaler Garson & Shaw, also revealed a degree of hypocrisy couched within those sentiments.Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 18 Sep. 2024
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Teams were in the field to assess houses and other structures that have been destroyed or damaged.Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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In November, Kevin sets tree stands low in mountain draws, often fairly close to houses, roads, and developments.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
Verb
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Hundreds of items—including a cannonball, spectacles, a pewter bowl, and twenty-six unopened bottles of wine—had already been excavated.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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While excavating in 2015, Frachetti met with one of the region’s only current inhabitants—a forestry inspector who lives with his family a few miles from Tashbulak.Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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