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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
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 25 Aug. 2025
After three to seven days, the larvae fall to the ground and burrow into the soil to pupate, transforming into flies.
—Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 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
When the eggs hatch, the larvae burrow into open wounds in their host animal to feed, which can cause infection and even death.
—Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 25 Aug. 2025
After three to seven days, the larvae fall to the ground and burrow into the soil to pupate, transforming into flies.
—Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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Twenty years later, the city had 30 nests.—
Tom Langen,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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Remnants of concrete German artillery bunkers and machine gun nests litter the coastline.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Meanwhile, the government has frozen $2 billion in funding for Harvard, leading the university to file a lawsuit to claw those funds back.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
21 Aug. 2025
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Now, with a year of experience under their belts (for most of them), can any of the other 2024 quarterbacks claw their way into the Top 5 fantasy scorers for 2025?—
Jake Ciely,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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This spring, my grandson crouched beside me to plant peas, 20 years after his father helped dig the first bed.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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In footage shared by the AP, the leopard was seen crouching on the ground next to the boy's vehicle before chasing the car and leaping at the window.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Cheetah cubs spend their first two months hidden in a lair while their mother hunts.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Somehow this ineptly plotted affair lured Keke Palmer into its lair and her comedy chops all but gets handcuffed by an illogical, unfunny screenplay.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The fact that Ryan Murphy’s American Love Story is shooting in the neighborhood is dredging everything back up again.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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The port planned to use it to clean up and remediate polluted areas, build facilities for handling the turbine parts, dredge the waterway and build a larger wharf capable of handling pieces of steel longer than a football field.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
31 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The web of secrets and confessions, schemes and counterplots, short-term pleasures and far-reaching decisions, are couched in dialogue that is pugnacious, vulnerable, comedic, and sometimes richly poetic, and which feels as spontaneous as it is carefully crafted.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2025
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Instead, the playbook is straightforward – identify a problem, then propose an overly restrictive governing scheme that couches the political favoritism as a beneficial expansion of the regulatory state.—
Wayne Winegarden,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The house is haunted by a family of farmers that lived and died on the land, murdered horribly by the patriarch of the family, but really, the problem is the demon that controls the mirror and its dark reflections.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The couple still live in separate houses but eat dinner together most nights.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Archaeologists excavated the underground burial and found a secondary connecting structure.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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While excavating the ruins, archaeologists from the University of Haifa's Zinman Institute of Archaeology were struck by a floor design at the entrance of an ancient building.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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