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Recent Examples of claw
That woman clawed her way back into power with only nine fingers and is about to be coronated on the global stage.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2025
The Knicks clawed their way through a bruising, back-and-forth first-round series against the Pistons and needed one last bucket to put it to rest.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Your contributions have to stay in your account for at least four years to earn the match (otherwise Acorns will claw the matching funds back).
—Elizabeth Gravier, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
Will Michele Kang’s investment in London City make the difference or will Birmingham City finally claw its way back to the top?
—Emily Olsen, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2025
The Knicks clawed their way through a bruising, back-and-forth first-round series against the Pistons and needed one last bucket to put it to rest.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Your contributions have to stay in your account for at least four years to earn the match (otherwise Acorns will claw the matching funds back).
—Elizabeth Gravier, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
Will Michele Kang’s investment in London City make the difference or will Birmingham City finally claw its way back to the top?
—Emily Olsen, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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And Whitaker sometimes burrows into subplots with a tenacity that can make the bigger picture recede.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
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Mole crabs burrow themselves in the intertidal swash zone but leave their antennae exposed above the surface to trap food like algae and plankton.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2025
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Deputies found her body only partially clothed and had two black eyes, swollen and lacerated lips and other facial injuries.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The accident broke both her legs, lacerated her liver, damaged her colon, severed an artery in her right leg, and collapsed her lung.—
Jordan Rau,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2025
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Under the Biden administration, the country shoveled unprecedented sums of federal dollars into clean-energy projects—battery factories, solar farms, nuclear plants—while also producing and exporting record volumes of oil and gas.—
Alexander C. Kaufman,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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Ahmed Mohammed shovels snow Wednesday in front of a grocery store in Omaha, Neb.Chris Machian / Omaha World-Herald via AP Meanwhile, possible tornadoes ripped roofs off buildings in Gary, Indiana, on Wednesday.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC News,
20 Mar. 2025
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The agency’s participation in the program, which began in 1994 as the Back to Sleep campaign, was cut on April 1, according to Dr. Rachel Moon, a lead author of safe sleep guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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However, with the fight at stake and Aldo unable to safely cut any more weight, a deal was struck between Aldo, the UFC, and Zahabi to fight at featherweight with a 145-pound limit.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2025
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Some of the toxic sediment has been dredged, including in the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, and other sediment has been capped.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2025
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Ramsay takes on the rigorous regimen just 10 months after a serious biking accident in Connecticut last June that left his ribs heavily bruised.—
Erin Clements,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Johnson is a bruising back who shows a strong understanding of how to read blockers.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2025
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Hard-line opposition figures contend that the threats to Maduro’s regime have so far lacked sufficient menace and credibility to scare Maduro’s supporters out of their money-grubbing sloth.—
Ivan Briscoe,
Foreign Affairs,
11 May 2020
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But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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But figuring out what’s excavating without your permission isn’t straightforward.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
8 May 2025
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Archaeologists did not excavate the largest part of the hole but suspect more treasures may be hidden within.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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