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Recent Examples of claw
As a child, watching other people with their families; as an adult in New York City, clawing for a foothold.
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Julie Buntin, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The team couldn't claw its way back from that early deficit, which also happened to be the first time Murray had thrown consecutive interceptions.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
And time is running out to spend down climate funds from the Inflation Reduction Act before the Trump administration can attempt to claw it back.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2025
Teams have been desperately clawing for seeding with the playoffs shaping up and players and coaches have been leaving it all on the field.
—Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Julie Buntin, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The team couldn't claw its way back from that early deficit, which also happened to be the first time Murray had thrown consecutive interceptions.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
And time is running out to spend down climate funds from the Inflation Reduction Act before the Trump administration can attempt to claw it back.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2025
Teams have been desperately clawing for seeding with the playoffs shaping up and players and coaches have been leaving it all on the field.
—Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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Female turtles need dry areas to lay eggs and vegetation to burrow and hide.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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Yet, despite the need to burrow, New Yorkers tend to get a little stir-crazy when holed up in our apartments for longer than a day.—
Ariel Okin,
Vogue,
22 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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Brzezinski and Scarborough’s criticism of the president’s day-one actions comes a little over two months after the talk show couple were lacerated by liberals for privately visiting then-President-elect Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate back in November.—
Harrison Chon-Walker,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
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Tracey Avis, business licensing and customer service supervisor for the village of Norridge, told Pioneer Press that the list features individuals willing to shovel snow, mow lawns and/or rake leaves for residents.—
Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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The complaints resemble those from Washington about China’s policy of shoveling money into homegrown companies in defiance of global trade agreements.—
Alexandra Stevenson,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Crews found heavy flames coming from the front of the home and focused their efforts on search and rescue while also cutting holes in the roof of the house to release smoke and gas, the Fire Department said in a social media post.—
Amy McDaniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Feb. 2025
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Stocks rapidly cut those losses after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Trump struck a deal to delay the tariffs for one month.—
Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
3 Feb. 2025
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The Denver Post in 2022 published a three-part investigation that documented, for the first time, how local villagers dredged these valuable antiquities from a secret vault at the Plai Bat II temple in northeast Thailand and sold them to a burgeoning collector named Douglas Latchford.—
Sam Tabachnik,
The Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2025
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The first is and underwater underwater dredging machine which is remotely operated to dredge the river floor for marine and ecosystem studies, disaster prevention, renewable energy, environmental conservation, and eventually underwater mining.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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The former Democratic congresswoman and onetime Democratic presidential candidate has stirred up waves of controversy from across the political spectrum and is expected to face a bruising confirmation battle.—
Emily Chang,
ABC News,
27 Jan. 2025
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The University of San Francisco’s shooters responded by bruising the rim.—
Cam Inman,
The Mercury News,
23 Jan. 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.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
23 Mar. 2024
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The site extends 150 meters (around 500 feet) and includes approximately 200 giant footprints, according to the BBC — though the outlet notes that the tracks could extend even further into areas that have not yet been excavated.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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Interview 'Telling the Story of Addiction Doesn’t Always Save You from the Experience Of It': An Interview With Leslie Jamison Chantal Braganza The author of The Recovering on archival addiction narratives, excavating how things get better, and sugar.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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