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Recent Examples of burrow
Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Bunker-buster bombs describe a type of munition that can burrow deep into the ground before exploding and are designed for attacking fortified subterranean targets.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 23 June 2025
Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 25 June 2025
Crayfish hide in short burrows in the riverbank, under larger rocks or wood, or in detritus that is present in all the parts of the creek.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 16 June 2025
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Noun
Stories that burrow into characters’ trains of thought can capture true interiority in a way that film or nonfiction cannot.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Bunker-buster bombs describe a type of munition that can burrow deep into the ground before exploding and are designed for attacking fortified subterranean targets.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 23 June 2025
Verb
The 30,000-pound bombs burrow deep into the earth before exploding.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 25 June 2025
Crayfish hide in short burrows in the riverbank, under larger rocks or wood, or in detritus that is present in all the parts of the creek.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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Stay away from the nest for at least a day. Nests that are located in out-of-the-way spots, such as the back of your property, don’t need to be destroyed.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
11 July 2025
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Earlier studies found that more than 35 percent of loggerhead eggs were preyed upon within nests at Ningaloo, including 80 percent at one single rookery.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
Verb
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Those who had managed to leave their cabins were left groping around in the pitch dark, trying to find a way out, clawing their way up the tilting stairs.—
Krista Stevens,
Longreads,
7 July 2025
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As of last year, China is the world’s largest trading nation in terms of goods, having clawed its way up by diverging from market principles and creating enormous friction in the global economic order.—
Emily Kilcrease,
Foreign Affairs,
9 June 2025
Verb
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Officers then discovered the man, who was identified as Gamboa, with a minor gunshot wound, crouched down among a small group of people.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
23 June 2025
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On Saturday, at an anti-Trump No Kings protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, a man reportedly appeared to be crouching behind a wall, while carrying what looked like an AR-15-style rifle.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Julie then said something about the mastermind's lair exploding, and, before commercial break, the show naturally flashed a fake shot of a lair exploding out in the wilderness.—
David Wysong,
The Enquirer,
11 July 2025
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In October, after more than five months of searching, Michelle forwarded a Scrim sighting a few blocks from my house, near a quiet brickyard that Tammy suspected of being his lair.—
David W. Brown,
New Yorker,
5 July 2025
Verb
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Bastianich’s tips include picking a firm, fresh eggplant, cutting it in thick slices, dredging them in flour and panfrying before draining, cooling, rolling, nestling in the sauce and baking until bubbly.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 July 2025
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County crews have since dredged nearby canals with hopes of preventing a similar disaster.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 June 2025
Verb
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The story is halting, its end inevitable; it’s also couched in self-doubt, second-guessing, disbelief.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 June 2025
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Asian American women and Latinas were more vocal in their support for diversity, but carefully couched that support in gendered rather than racial terms.—
Adia Harvey Wingfield,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
Noun
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The cat spooks, darting under a pile of debris that was once a house.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
12 July 2025
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Meanwhile, videos circulating on social media show a house being swept up in the surge in Ruidoso as rushing waters tore through previously burn-scarred terrain from wildfires.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
Verb
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From 2004 to 2009, a team excavated the Neumark-Nord 2 site year-round, even training over 175 international students in the process.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
12 July 2025
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In time, settlers would excavate and plunder countless ancestral ruins across the Southwest, with artifacts carried off to private collections and museum displays.—
Mike Bezemek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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