Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrowing (into)
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Brandy and Monica were on their feet for almost every song, grooving alongside a captivating ensemble of dancers who flowed through hip hop and contemporary dance styles.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
18 Oct. 2025 -
Rodgers is grooving in Arthur Smith’s system that plays to his strengths.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Instead of adding external chemicals or excavating polluted layers, the soil itself becomes a dynamic system capable of regenerating its quality over time.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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Archaeologists plan to continue analyzing these artifacts and excavating the area around the ancient basin.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Kansas City Star,
17 Oct. 2025
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Whereas Joseph Mitchell’s pristine artistry and Janet Malcolm’s penetrating eye seemed otherworldly, the elements of what made a McKelway story work were legible to me, albeit polished to their highest form.—
David Grann,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Dramiga died from blunt force and penetrating trauma to the head.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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At least the climactic pandemonium has some of that old REC intensity; Plaza dynamically orchestrates the violence, dazzling the eyes of his audience one minute, gouging the eyes of his characters the next.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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There’s no question Newsom — who had spent months excoriating refiners for gouging consumers on gasoline prices, even calling a special legislative session to impose new regulations — changed his tune after two refineries announced plans to shut down.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The move comes as Puma evolves its organizational set-up by splitting its DTC business into two dedicated global retail and global e-commerce focus areas.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Cougars cushion was short-lived however because Levi Johnson scored for the Eagles (15-3-2) less than three minutes later by splitting a couple defenders at the top of the box, poking the ball past the goalie before pushing the ball across the line.—
Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Some of this slashing and burning can be explained by the old-fashioned small-government fanaticism of administration personnel like Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Insurers are slashing networks, hiking deductibles, and pulling out of entire counties.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Walz drew a surge of media attention and prompted popular X posts on the campaign trail for cutting a rootsy profile like her father.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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In cutting those moments, Baxter used the score to track the temperature of his edit, especially as the second chapter begins.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The surgery is done as a preventative to keep the aneurysm from rupturing.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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Research by John Gottman and colleagues shows that the most stable couples are those who can repair quickly after a rupture, within three minutes of a conflict, to be precise, so as to pre-emptively stop the conflict from rupturing into an uncontrollable one.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Burrowing (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrowing%20%28into%29. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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