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Recent Examples of burrow
Greta Cross, USA Today, 13 May 2025
When the eggs hatch six weeks later, new cicada nymphs will fall from the trees and burrow back underground, starting the cycle again.
—Chris Simon, The Conversation, 22 May 2025
Lisa McCarty, SELF, 21 May 2025
Another theory suggests that extreme winter weather may have caused their deaths while hibernating, as frogs burrow into the mud but can succumb to particularly harsh freezes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Within a few hours, the eggs hatch into larvae (maggots) and burrow into the wound, eating the living flesh.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 13 May 2025
When the eggs hatch six weeks later, new cicada nymphs will fall from the trees and burrow back underground, starting the cycle again.
—Chris Simon, The Conversation, 22 May 2025
Verb
When an egg burrows into this tissue to start growing into a fetus, the blood vessels may bleed slightly.
—Lisa McCarty, SELF, 21 May 2025
Another theory suggests that extreme winter weather may have caused their deaths while hibernating, as frogs burrow into the mud but can succumb to particularly harsh freezes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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More than 200 modern bird species nest in the Arctic, braving the harsh conditions each year.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 June 2025
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Video showed that, as the eaglet took off at 10:46 a.m., Gizmo’s head swiveled, monitoring as Sunny fledged, or made an inaugural flight from the nest.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
Verb
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The seemingly unstoppable Club name hit turbulence earlier this year before clawing its way back into the green.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
27 May 2025
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Indiana trailed 76-65 at the start of the fourth quarter but showed incredible spirit to claw its way back into the game.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
21 May 2025
Verb
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More doctors and nurses converge as if they’d been crouched, hiding alongside the arms the whole time.—
Erica Stern
June 9,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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Those without umbrellas crouched under trees and retreated to awnings of businesses and apartment buildings.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
7 June 2025
Noun
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Fitting for an actor, the house hides a cinematic lair.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Kelly scooped at the firm snow, tiny icicles swaying from his white mustache, but couldn’t find a lair.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
Verb
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The Infamous Oakmont Rakes—And A Lesson In Player Power Oakmont’s original bunkers were filled with coarse, rocky sand dredged from the nearby Allegheny River.—
Tim Corlett,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Their inquiries revealed that the trucks carried winter storm sediment dredged from catch basins that were quickly inundated with runoff in and around fire-scarred Altadena.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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When Republicans pass the laws people are fleeing, it’s sometimes couched in religious terms.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
5 June 2025
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Though couched in adulatory language, the letter presents a vision of AI governance that differs from Trump’s current approach.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
21 May 2025
Noun
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That’s because the residence in question is the International Space Station (ISS), a million-pound orbital outpost with a footprint larger than a football field and the habitable volume of a six-bedroom house, circling the Earth 250 miles overhead.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Cameras with long lenses will be perched in the back of the house while others will be hidden in speakers and TV monitors so viewers can get up close and personal shots of the action.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
Verb
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Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Civil work has finished at six out of eight stations in Gujarat, while Mumbai's underground terminus at Bandra Kurla Complex is 75 percent excavated.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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In May, a team excavated the Senja site and identified it as a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking boat grave, the museum said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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