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Recent Examples of burrows
Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
22 June 2026
Gassing of the muskrat runs, or burrows, was also tried.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
22 June 2026
The snakes spend much of their time underground in the burrows of pocket gophers.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
Hedgehog burrows and transit routes.
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Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
Prairie massasaugas are a subspecies of the western massasaugas and are endangered in Missouri, living in wet prairies or bottomlands with lots of crayfish burrows and grass.
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Sophie Lindberg,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
There are a few possibilities for non-gopher holes, including the Norway rat, voles, moles, rabbits, ground squirrels and snakes, which don’t dig their own underground burrows but take over old tunnels and improve upon them.
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Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
18 May 2026
Health officials say people can also encounter hantavirus risk while handling firewood, working in rodent-prone outdoor areas or disturbing rodent nests and burrows.
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Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
13 May 2026
Hikers will look for evidence like burrows, nests and tracks of tarantulas, toads, scorpions, glowworms and other nighttime creatures.
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Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
Their burrows are extensive, with at least two entrances.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
22 June 2026
Gassing of the muskrat runs, or burrows, was also tried.
—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
22 June 2026
The snakes spend much of their time underground in the burrows of pocket gophers.
—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
Hedgehog burrows and transit routes.
—
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
Prairie massasaugas are a subspecies of the western massasaugas and are endangered in Missouri, living in wet prairies or bottomlands with lots of crayfish burrows and grass.
—
Sophie Lindberg,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
There are a few possibilities for non-gopher holes, including the Norway rat, voles, moles, rabbits, ground squirrels and snakes, which don’t dig their own underground burrows but take over old tunnels and improve upon them.
—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
18 May 2026
Health officials say people can also encounter hantavirus risk while handling firewood, working in rodent-prone outdoor areas or disturbing rodent nests and burrows.
—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
13 May 2026
Hikers will look for evidence like burrows, nests and tracks of tarantulas, toads, scorpions, glowworms and other nighttime creatures.
—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrows
Noun
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To discourage them from building nests in your lawn, fill in any bare patches with grass seed or other plants and fertilize regularly.
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Most bird nests are legally protected, so if eggs or chicks are present, leave the nest undisturbed until the birds move on.
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To keep the body of water a lake and an effective flood-control tool, Great Parks periodically dredges to remove excess sediment at the bottom of the lake.
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But then a heavy beat drops, and the figure crouches down into a duckwalk, moving across the walkway in a low bounce before springing up with the circling arm movements of voguing.
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At the other end of the pitch, Robert Lewandowski crouches down on his haunches, eyes looking everywhere and nowhere, their nothingness saying everything.
Noun
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These involve raiding the lairs of hoodlum rivals, then singlehandedly dissuading them from competition.
Verb
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Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.
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Oh Whale excavates Oregon’s infamous 1970 exploding-whale incident through the eyes of journalist Paul Linnman, who broke the story at age 23 and has been answering questions about it ever since.
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With the electric motor filling every chink in the engine’s armor, the Bentley squats under throttle and rockets like a luxury locomotive.
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In a video posted on Instagram on Thursday, Vonn squats with weights, lunges from side to side and does fast kicks against a ball.
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Along the bay stood a long, busy waterfront, lined with warehouses, shops and trading houses.
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Such offenders will use all different ruses to distract the victim, such as claiming to be utility workers, tree trimmers, or handymen working on neighbors' houses.
Verb
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Instead, the playbook is straightforward – identify a problem, then propose an overly restrictive governing scheme that couches the political favoritism as a beneficial expansion of the regulatory state.
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“Burrows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrows. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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