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Recent Examples of pawMeanwhile, Archie is trending for cats, pawing at Luna's #1 place.—Anna Spiegel, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024 When the cat falls overboard and can’t paw its way back to the surface, it’s rescued from drowning by the opportune passing of a mammoth humpback, who catches the animal on its nose and breaches just in time.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024 Raya made a telling contribution by pawing away Jorgen Strand Larsen’s first-half header.—James McNicholas, The Athletic, 17 Aug. 2024 The animal jumped at the female employee, pawing her, before scampering away while the employee ran into the stand, shutting the door behind her.—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for paw
Move methodically from finger to finger, maintaining a steady rhythm.
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Mark Travers,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
Mutations to the bacteria B. pertussis are also fingered for the increase in whooping cough cases, as these mutations make the bacteria a more formidable foe against whooping cough vaccinations.
Swift is often closely watched at games, with people filming her every move, attempting to lip read her conversations and even noticing when her jewellery slips off.
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Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2024
Kim faced her own ups and downs, twice lipping out putts on her back nine to finish with a 74.
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Mark Anderson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2024
In September 2023, after Swift surprised fans with her first appearance at a Chiefs game in Arrowhead and influencer Alix Earle was seen hugging a Miami Dolphins player on the sidelines, Vogue wondered if fashion and football were a good fit.
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Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2025
Each of the church’s clergy members hugged Brandon, and the congregants raised their hands toward him in a show of support.
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Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
25 Jan. 2025
Dan Sheldon Golf: A hole-in-one There’s no greater satisfaction in sport than carefully caressing a little white ball into a slightly larger hole in the ground with a metal stick.
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The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
2 Jan. 2025
The soil caressed my bare feet, and the dust was always boiling up from the dirt road that passed 50 feet from our front door.
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