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Recent Examples of burrow
Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Chipmunks hide under shrub or tree roots, in rock walls, or may burrow beneath the steps to your deck or under the foundation of your house or shed, says Owen.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
According to researchers, the interdune barking gecko lives alone in burrows beginning from a very young age.
—Lauren Liebhaber
september 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The South American swamp rodents also burrow holes in levees, posing a threat to the state’s flood-control and water-supply infrastructure.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Chipmunks hide under shrub or tree roots, in rock walls, or may burrow beneath the steps to your deck or under the foundation of your house or shed, says Owen.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
Still, they're named for their habit of using crayfish burrows that are mostly abandoned.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
According to researchers, the interdune barking gecko lives alone in burrows beginning from a very young age.
—Lauren Liebhaber
september 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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New York — The rat’s nest of AI partnerships just got a bit more tangled.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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Brood parasites such as cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, tricking the hosts into caring for their offspring at the expense of their own.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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End-of-roster pickups Collin Gillespie and Jared Butler will have chances to claw their way into the rotation.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Benny Emmanuel stars as Vgly, a young rapper trying to claw his way to prominence while feuding with foes through beats and rhymes.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In Davao City, firefighters were filmed crouching on the ground outside their station, as sirens blared.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
10 Oct. 2025
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And there, underneath the window, a man is crouching.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Even diligent Webberheads will need to overlook certain gaffes, like a hero who seems to have tied himself up in a climactic moment and a Stygian lair well marked with glowing Exit signs.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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In the Henchmen's Heist room, participants have been hired by a super villain to break into a high security superhero lair and steal valuable assets before the hero returns.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Other fresh fish were lightly dredged in flour, fried, baked, and then garnished with parsley and black walnuts.—
Victoria Flexner,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour, shaking off excess.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Southern Living,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Defamation concerns false statements that are couched as factual and objective.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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These reflections, too, would then be couched in a language too confusing for most readers to understand.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As the man of the house — for his mother, twin sister and three younger sisters — his adolescence came with different pressures.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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All the while, the enchanted garden where Travis would get down on one knee was being assembled outside of his and Swift’s house.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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These connections raise the possibility that people were following camels across the desert on winter migrations, says archaeologist and study co-author Ceri Shipton, who was excavating the site, known as Jebel Misma, when his team spotted a spectacular caravan of camel carvings on May 14, 2023.—
Martin J. Kernan,
Scientific American,
30 Sep. 2025
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His aristocratic tastes are reflected in his various building projects, the remains of which have been excavated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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