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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grubbed (about)
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The envelope with the secret number was unsealed on a conference stage in July 2024, and Schlamminger and his team finally found out the real results of their work.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026 -
The actor believed the tumor was caused by his lymphoma, but later found out the two cancers were unrelated.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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Abdul ran down the stairs with the victim’s wife, who is also named Maria.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
23 May 2026
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Dreyer ran down the ball, held off a defender, threatened the goalkeeper and made a perfect cross that the 5-foot-91/2 Lozano headed home five minutes into injury time.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 May 2026
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Two of Rubén’s older sons, who married Russian acrobats during international stints, broke off and founded their own troupe as Circus Caballero.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Co-founded in 1986 by philanthropist and child health advocate Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and pediatrician and genetics pioneer Professor David Danks, MCRI comprises 1,800 scientists, researchers and clinicians.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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Canada's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced Friday that McLean's remains had been located in the Lions Bay area of British Columbia, according to PEOPLE.—
Oliver Gettell,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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Canada's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) announced in a Friday, May 22 media release shared with PEOPLE that McLean's remains were located in the Lions Bay area.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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On the bright side, new industrial chemistries are often expensive at the start but come down in price as more efficient ways to accomplish the task are discovered.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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The region has absorbed a decade of being discovered and come out intact.—
Melinda Sheckells,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2026
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West Nile Virus was first detected in California in 2003 and is now considered endemic in the Sacramento and Yolo counties.—
Reeti Malhotra,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2026
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The end result is a drone which cannot be detected, cannot be jammed, and can reliably find and hit moving targets.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Taylor believed there was an objectively correct productivity level that could be ascertained as certainly as gravity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
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The pair quickly ascertained that a skier was still attached to the skis, and bee-lined toward him.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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According to court records, investigators learned during their investigation that Mason and another individual (that name was redacted) kidnapped Kayla.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2026
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That was just one lesson learned during the drama series panel at the Variety A Night in the Writers’ Room event in Los Angeles.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
14 May 2026
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“Grubbed (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubbed%20%28about%29. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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