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Recent Examples of maw
As well, surface skimmers are also often pretty dumb, careening around the pool hoping the debris gets randomly scooped into their maw.
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Christopher Null,
Wired News,
23 Apr. 2026
All these devices had escaped the maw of oblivion.
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Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Resistance, rebellion and retribution all come out to play in one of Disney+’s most consistent series that’s unafraid to put its larger-than-life characters into the maw of Venus fly trap-like set of moral and ethical issues.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
And as such are grappling with the complex history of figures like him, whose lust for profit is matched only by a prescient sense of what the world will need next to satiate the ravenous maw of industry and global capital.
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Nicolas Niarchos,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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Christopher Null,
Wired News,
23 Apr. 2026
All these devices had escaped the maw of oblivion.
—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Resistance, rebellion and retribution all come out to play in one of Disney+’s most consistent series that’s unafraid to put its larger-than-life characters into the maw of Venus fly trap-like set of moral and ethical issues.
—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
And as such are grappling with the complex history of figures like him, whose lust for profit is matched only by a prescient sense of what the world will need next to satiate the ravenous maw of industry and global capital.
—
Nicolas Niarchos,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maw
Noun
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Her boyfriend tried to get her out of the alligator’s mouth, officials said.
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Four meals a day, and 61 mouths to feed.
Noun
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In his weirdest picture—the late, baroque, campy Allegory of Faith—a bug-eyed female figure is shown clutching her chest, one foot balanced perilously on a globe, while a snake gushing blood from its jaws gyrates in the foreground.
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The blockbuster trade that sent Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers had dads everywhere dropping their jaws and grill tongs.
Noun
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That public has continually widened its gullet and gulped.
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There will undoubtedly be a sense of confusion about what Harry and Meghan are there for … this trip may stick in the gullet of the palace.
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“Maw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maw. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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