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Recent Examples of claw
Some, assuredly, still to form after clawing with Timberwolves in a regular-season night somehow unlike any other in a career of firsts.
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2025
The Bulls have overcome an underwhelming start to the season to claw their way back into a likely third consecutive appearance in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors
Kelsey Grammer has clawed his way back to the MCU.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Travis Kelce has successfully clawed his way into Happy Gilmore 2.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2025
The Bulls have overcome an underwhelming start to the season to claw their way back into a likely third consecutive appearance in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors
Kelsey Grammer has clawed his way back to the MCU.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Travis Kelce has successfully clawed his way into Happy Gilmore 2.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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Then, just this year, two major campaigns, Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon, burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure programs and penetrated telecommunications networks, allowing vast capabilities to spy on Americans.—
James Lamond,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, researchers discovered tube-like structures likely the result of boring or burrowing by an unknown life form.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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The accident broke both her legs, lacerated her liver, damaged her colon, severed an artery in her right leg, and collapsed her lung.—
Jordan Rau,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2025
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On the Better Business Bureau’s website, 939 customer reviews give the company an average 1.28 rating out of 5, offering lacerating complaints about dirty and broken equipment, delivery delays, nightmarish customer service, improper billings, and harassing sales and collection calls.—
Peter Elkind,
ProPublica,
10 Mar. 2025
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Over the years, players, including Durham, sometimes gave Wickers money to supplement his income from washing windows, shoveling snow and other odd jobs.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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There’s also evidence that the ship’s engineers left the boilers on, shoveling coal into the furnaces to keep electricity running.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2025
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The state says the rule is crucial to meeting greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and cutting smog-forming pollutants.—
David Shepardson,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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With the new order, Trump is threatening to cut federal funds to cities and states his Administration decides are blocking his mass deportation effort.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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Some of the toxic sediment has been dredged, including in the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, and other sediment has been capped.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2025
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After letting the chicken marinate, dredge the chicken in the flour mixture, pressing to ensure that the chicken is evenly coated and the flour is adhering securely.—
Jessica Fields,
Essence,
28 Feb. 2025
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This type of groin strain is more likely to cause bruising and swelling.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
22 Apr. 2025
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Detroit’s starting center, Jalen Duren, is 6-10, while backup Isaiah Stewart is 6-8 but known for his bruising style of play.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Hard-line opposition figures contend that the threats to Maduro’s regime have so far lacked sufficient menace and credibility to scare Maduro’s supporters out of their money-grubbing sloth.—
Ivan Briscoe,
Foreign Affairs,
11 May 2020
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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 thrill of the rush is what got kids on the run as their parents tried to direct them to areas not yet excavated.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2025
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Underground is a contemporary interpretation of the Roman baths excavated in nearby Cimiez, with a warm tepidarium, a hot caldarium, and a frigidarium, or cold plunge.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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