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Recent Examples of furrow
Asif Burhan, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Brows furrow, lips purse, and side-eyes are flicked — deliciously.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
In his podcast studio, Joe Rogan sat for three hours, cigar smoldering and brow furrowed, as his guest held forth about the dark history of America’s influence abroad.
—Charles Homans, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The 27-year-old has ploughed a long furrow in the lower leagues, dropping down a division to join third tier Ipswich Town in 2021.
—Asif Burhan, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Brows furrow, lips purse, and side-eyes are flicked — deliciously.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
Verb
Now, like other players on this list, some will five goals and 10 points through those 23 games and furrow a brow.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
In his podcast studio, Joe Rogan sat for three hours, cigar smoldering and brow furrowed, as his guest held forth about the dark history of America’s influence abroad.
—Charles Homans, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for furrow
Noun
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Joining the Senators for their expansion season, Millen’s transition from the blue crease to the TV booth was smooth.—
Rob Rossi,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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There was hair that had to be flocked, individually, into the chin piece and the brow piece that was to reflect the same crease as Ethan’s.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
Verb
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One slug had broken a shoulder; the other had gone in between two ribs, plowed through the lungs, and lodged against a rib on the far side.—
Bill Thomas,
Outdoor Life,
24 Apr. 2025
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But Beijing is plowing credit from that sector into industrial policy efforts that are boosting competitiveness.—
Kurt M. Campbell,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Ike Barinholtz’s Sal Saperstein listens with his eyebrows up, his forehead wrinkled into a semi-permanent state of worry.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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Over millions of years, rain, flash floods, sandstorms and earthquakes have scoured and wrinkled the soft sandstone into the maze-like badlands.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
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“Furrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furrow. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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