burrowing (into)

present participle of burrow (into)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrowing (into)
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • Archaeologists plan to continue analyzing these artifacts and excavating the area around the ancient basin.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Dramiga died from blunt force and penetrating trauma to the head.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Insurers are slashing networks, hiking deductibles, and pulling out of entire counties.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • The surgery is done as a preventative to keep the aneurysm from rupturing.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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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