burrow (into)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow (into)
Verb
  • And our love for them is starting to hollow us out.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • This treatment is best for those with thinning skin or hollowing areas under the eyes.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Overall, archaeologists are thrilled to get the opportunity to excavate and preserve the grave, since historic sites like this one are often destroyed by farmers’ plows.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
  • But every early cathode-ray tube color television owed its screen’s red hue to europium, a rare earth element excavated and processed exclusively at the Mountain Pass Mine in San Bernardino County.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • The key is its ability to penetrate the skin beyond the surface barrier.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 20 June 2025
  • Microneedling produces tiny wounds in the skin that allow topical medications to penetrate more deeply while stimulating collagen production and the release of growth factors.
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • That allowed Igor Jesus to put Botafogo in front to stay shortly before the intermission, splitting a pair of PSG defenders to run on to Jefferson Savarino’s perfectly weighted through ball, then beating keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma from the top of the box.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • Breaking Down The Pillars Microservices The core principle of microservices involves splitting a monolithic application into multiple independent services.
    Raju Dandigam, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • The reborn, unrecognizable, completely delicious Beethoven Market isn’t trying to gouge or dazzle or food-snob its way to success.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • The duties will gouge Americans on cars, food, appliances, electronics, furniture, clothing and — well, nearly everything.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • Sly gave us rhythm as resistance, groove as gospel.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 15 June 2025
  • If a patient has a long philtrum (that groove below the nose), a conservative lip lift can shorten the space, making a mouth look pert and pretty in an uninjected way.
    Jolene Edgar, Allure, 10 June 2025
Verb
  • If not treated, such pregnancies can rupture, causing organ damage, hemorrhaging or even death.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • Bucks guard Damian Lillard sustained his injury in a first-round loss to Indiana, while Boston’s Jayson Tatum ruptured the same tendon in a second-round defeat at Madison Square Garden.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Then, the family members would drag their victim to a hidden cellar on the property and slit the victim’s throat, leaving them there to die.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 June 2025
  • In April 2006, Stanko, 57, beat and strangled girlfriend Laura Ling to death and raped her teenage daughter and slit her throat.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
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“Burrow (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow%20%28into%29. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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