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Recent Examples of claw
The Sparks clawed their way back into the game in the third quarter behind 15 points from Hamby.
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Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2025
Led by a Coastal Carolina commit in senior quarterback Osiris Jones, Leominster was able to claw its way to a title bout with the ISL program, defeating the likes of great programs like Barnstable (a 22-20 win) and Milton (a 28-19 victory) en route to its championship appearance.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 July 2025
McVicker’s face is a painting with the energy of a neon sign, and Fast boasts a black cat sexiness that threatens to claw out of the screen and scratch you.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 July 2025
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Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2025
Led by a Coastal Carolina commit in senior quarterback Osiris Jones, Leominster was able to claw its way to a title bout with the ISL program, defeating the likes of great programs like Barnstable (a 22-20 win) and Milton (a 28-19 victory) en route to its championship appearance.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 July 2025
McVicker’s face is a painting with the energy of a neon sign, and Fast boasts a black cat sexiness that threatens to claw out of the screen and scratch you.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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First, the civil engineering company will need to safely burrow massive single-lane tunnels that are close to 10 miles long.—
Charles Singh,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Sep. 2025
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After the eggs hatch, the maggots burrow further into the tissue and cause painful infestations.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
26 Aug. 2025
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McQuarrie peppers snippets of the earlier films throughout, resurfacing not just moments of high-octane action but also lacerating losses.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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This is another trait of Mr. McNally’s: lacerating self-analysis, paired with knowing humor.—
Sarah Lyall,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Outside one house on Tuesday evening, seven people quickly moved large tree branches away from the structure and shoveled sand onto the fire in a desperate attempt to keep the blaze from spreading from the house next door, according to the AP.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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Hayes is now a long ways away from his teenage years shoveling driveways, and his early career as a postal-service worker.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
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Initially lined up outside, Chiefs defensive end Chris Jones quickly cut inside to beat the right tackle.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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On the northeast of the fire, by Sugar Pine Mountain, crews worked in steep, inaccessible terrain to bring containment lines into the natural rock bluff, trying to cut the fire off south of the Wishon Reservoir for the protection of the critical hydroelectric infrastructure.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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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
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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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Countless publications and companies, whether The Washington Post or Toast, have created tipping guides to help consumers wade through this morass of money grubbing.—
Tim Carman,
Washington Post,
26 June 2024
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Jingia dongxingensis was excavated from the Dongxing Formation and was named a new genus and species in 2024.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
2 Sep. 2025
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Other mining jobs include continuous mining machine operators, excavating/loading machine and dragline operators, and construction equipment operators.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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