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Recent Examples of grovel
Like many — including the groveling Rubio, Scott and Stefanik — Johnson was once a Trump critic.
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Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
At which point, according to her friends, Brenner would grovel and beg her to keep him.
—Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
The man, referred to in court documents as John Doe #2, pleaded with the crowd to not beat him up, according to prosecutors, and groveled while on his knees.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
Olga Rei and Valentine Uhovski Several weeks later Socialite Rank published a letter purporting to be from Palermo, groveling for the acceptance of New York's socialites.
—Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 17 May 2023
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Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
At which point, according to her friends, Brenner would grovel and beg her to keep him.
—Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
The man, referred to in court documents as John Doe #2, pleaded with the crowd to not beat him up, according to prosecutors, and groveled while on his knees.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
Olga Rei and Valentine Uhovski Several weeks later Socialite Rank published a letter purporting to be from Palermo, groveling for the acceptance of New York's socialites.
—Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 17 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grovel
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Read: Everyone should be reading Palestinian poetry The novel, which opens in 2012, has all the beats (and some of the cliché and cringe) of a romantic comedy—one that unfolds partly in the West Bank.Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
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Kylie Kelce is cringing over her time spent on a dating app.Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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If no shelter is available, crawl to an interior wall away from windows.Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025
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The two girls then left Leutner alone to crawl out of the forest and find help.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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But here at last, Adam lets Harry, a younger gay man who doesn’t bear the scars of that era, taste his cum without flinching.David Opie, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
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Kidman is flinching and vulnerable, her Romy desperate for relief from her own mind.Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2024
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Mortgage rates have crept back over 7% to start the new year in a potentially troublesome development for the housing market that has struggled under the weight of higher interest rates for two years that have priced people out of the market and slowed sales to 20-year lows.Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2025
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The drama creeps in gradually, like a gray poison slowly infecting the air.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
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Then he gets quite literally cornered by a horse, leaving him cowering and stuck in a stable and, therefore, unable to make it to the group cemetery outing.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
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As much as the initial strike matters, neither will cower.Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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The tiger snakes of Perth have heavy metals in their livers.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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That includes the Swannanoa River, which snakes through the historic Biltmore Village area.USA TODAY Graphics team, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
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Two people died and one critically injured in the early morning after their vehicle slid off of a bridge into the Blue River in south Kansas City.Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2025
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Naturally, the line would slide toward Elliss, which is exactly what the defense wanted.Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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With neighborhoods in metro Phoenix built against desert preserves, many of us will come face to face with a slithering creature at some point.Jessica Boehm, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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Employees of a store in the Aloha State were in for a slithering surprise after a two-foot snake was found inside a shipping container of Christmas trees sent to the island.Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Grovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grovel. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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