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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 See All Example Sentences for burrow
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.
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Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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.
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.
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Martin J. Kernan,
Scientific American,
30 Sep. 2025
His aristocratic tastes are reflected in his various building projects, the remains of which have been excavated.
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