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Recent Examples of claw
But the stock clawed its way back up during the post-earnings call once investors better understood management’s outlook, including some conservatism embedded in the assumptions.
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CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
The Red Sox scrapped and clawed their way to three straight wins before dominating the Yankees in Game 7, 10-3, becoming the first and — even 20 years later — only MLB team ever to win a seven-game series by overcoming a 3-0 deficit.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
That was the day the Chiefs clawed their way back from a 24-0 deficit and kept rolling on to pummel the Houston Texans in the AFC Divisional Round playoff game by a final score of 51-31.
—The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
Temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) while migrants screamed and banged the walls of the trailer for help or tried to claw their way out, investigators said.
—Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
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CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
The Red Sox scrapped and clawed their way to three straight wins before dominating the Yankees in Game 7, 10-3, becoming the first and — even 20 years later — only MLB team ever to win a seven-game series by overcoming a 3-0 deficit.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
That was the day the Chiefs clawed their way back from a 24-0 deficit and kept rolling on to pummel the Houston Texans in the AFC Divisional Round playoff game by a final score of 51-31.
—The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
Temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) while migrants screamed and banged the walls of the trailer for help or tried to claw their way out, investigators said.
—Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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A little over an hour later, the people behind the email flood had burrowed into the nether reaches of the company's network.—
Dan Goodin,
Ars Technica,
21 Feb. 2025
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Who gets access? Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is continuing to burrow deeper into the federal bureaucracy in search of what the tech mogul says are trillions in potential cost cuts.—
Andrew Ross Sorkin,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Everything that follows, however, is emotionally lacerating, conveyed on the children’s distraught, confused faces, and hitting Dad like a ton of bricks.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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The Democrats today recall the Whigs lacerated by Marx in nineteenth-century Britain, another liberal party tied to an arrogant economic elite.—
Matthew Karp,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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While powdery snow is loved by skiers, wet snow is hard to shovel (but great for making snowmen).—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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No one died during the eruption itself, but one person did suffer a fatal heart attack while shoveling the ash.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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People will chew on the Broadway first of an Othello directed and lead-produced by black men—Leon and Brian Anthony Moreland, respectively—and cut their assumptions about that to fit their pre-existing views.—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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Second half Utah cut the deficit to one after outscoring Sacramento 13-5 to start the second half, but the Kings responded with an 11-1 run to push the lead back to double digits.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Feb. 2025
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Most of the county’s other coastal lagoons also have been dredged in recent decades, though less frequently, to preserve wetlands habitats and for other environmental reasons.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Now, researchers in London have dated dozens of bones dredged from the river, creating a comprehensive database that has dispelled longstanding theories about why the river came to serve as the final resting place for so many people.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Some types of blood clotting disorders may cause excessive formation of blood clots, which can lead to stroke or heart attack—and other types cause too much bleeding, which can lead to bruising, blood loss, and liver damage.—
Steffini Stalos,
Verywell Health,
4 Mar. 2025
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The response was given by Elissa Slotkin, a freshman Democratic senator from Michigan and a new face for the party still licking its wounds from bruising down-ballot defeats last November.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2025
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But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie as told by Craig Brown Air Supply The Constant Gardener Spring is in the air, and AIR SUPPLY’s latest collection is ripe for the picking.—
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airmail.news,
23 Mar. 2024
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According to Windsor police, the man admitted to excavating abalone from rocks along the Mendocino County coast near the town of Elk for personal consumption.—
Suhauna Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
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Read More | 3,000-year-old ruins and artifacts found at massive gold mine in Egypt, photos show Archaeologists excavating the Sukari gold mine in southeastern Egypt uncovered a 3,000-year-old mining camp.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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