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Recent Examples of claw
With a win Saturday night, the 9-6 Los Angeles Rams can claw to the brink of an improbable and spirited division title.
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Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
The exterior of a couch has been clawed and squashed, having borne the brunt of the canine's antics.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Once the grant money is spent, Trump and Republicans are highly unlikely to be able to claw it back.
—Paulina Smolinski, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
Gordon sticks out an arm… And claws it over the bar.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
The exterior of a couch has been clawed and squashed, having borne the brunt of the canine's antics.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Once the grant money is spent, Trump and Republicans are highly unlikely to be able to claw it back.
—Paulina Smolinski, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
Gordon sticks out an arm… And claws it over the bar.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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This allows the eel to stay burrowed in the mud, yet still find prey and avoid being eaten.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
2 Jan. 2025
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The time and temperature has come to burrow ourselves into our cold weather must-haves, and the best knitwear brands are here to keep us warm, and stylish.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
6 Dec. 2024
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Migrant children have been lacerated by the fences, needing stitches in some cases, USA TODAY has reported.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American-Statesman,
4 Jan. 2024
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As the rapid retreat of ISIS from the Mosul Dam indicated, U.S. aircraft can lacerate ISIS when its fighters come out in numbers on the offensive, or stop to set up mortar or artillery positions.—
Steven Simon,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2014
Verb
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Next stop, Overland Park to shovel someone’s driveway.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2025
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That storm was a killer, claiming the lives of eight people who died of heart attacks while shoveling and nine others who perished of carbon monoxide poisoning while sitting in snowbound cars.—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
6 Jan. 2025
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The fires have forced nearly 180,000 people to evacuate, cut power to nearly half a million customers and burned thousands of homes.—
Evan Bush,
NBC News,
10 Jan. 2025
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Averaging 20 points per game in December was not cutting it.—
Jon Krawczynski,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The results were used to determine the best places to deposit sediment dredged from the river’s navigation channel.—
Philip Diehl,
The Mercury News,
30 Dec. 2024
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Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour, shaking off excess.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Southern Living,
29 Oct. 2024
Verb
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The Hill: Republican Russell Vought, Trump’s choice to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget, signaled Wednesday some bruising spending clashes ahead, accompanied by expansion of White House sway over the bureaucracy.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
16 Jan. 2025
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The Eagles fought through a messy, bruising game and proved their grit.—
Hannah Vanbiber,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie as told by Craig Brown Air Supply The Constant Gardener Spring is in the air, and AIR SUPPLY’s latest collection is ripe for the picking.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
23 Mar. 2024
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Countless publications and companies, whether The Washington Post or Toast, have created tipping guides to help consumers wade through this morass of money grubbing.—
Tim Carman,
Washington Post,
26 June 2024
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Scientists have demonstrated that an ancient human skull excavated from a tomb at Ephesos was not that of Arsinoë IV, half-sister to Cleopatra VII.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
13 Jan. 2025
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The cemetery contains approximately 200 graves, with 12 excavated so far, dating back to the fifth and sixth centuries.—
Flynn Nicholls,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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