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Recent Examples of clawThat woman clawed her way back into power with only nine fingers and is about to be coronated on the global stage.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2025 The Knicks clawed their way through a bruising, back-and-forth first-round series against the Pistons and needed one last bucket to put it to rest.—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025 Your contributions have to stay in your account for at least four years to earn the match (otherwise Acorns will claw the matching funds back).—Elizabeth Gravier, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025 Will Michele Kang’s investment in London City make the difference or will Birmingham City finally claw its way back to the top?—Emily Olsen, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for claw
However, with the fight at stake and Aldo unable to safely cut any more weight, a deal was struck between Aldo, the UFC, and Zahabi to fight at featherweight with a 145-pound limit.
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Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
Return overgrown grass to the proper height by raising the mower deck to cut the grass high.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 May 2025
Photos showing Rihanna bloodied and bruised after the attack were leaked to the public at the time, forever altering Brown's reputation and kicking off more than a decade of legal troubles.
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Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
At one point, Geoff decided to reprogram Ian’s foot switch, in part to cheer up Molly Holm, one of Ian’s nurses since 2008, who had bruised her ribs slipping on ice.
Hard-line opposition figures contend that the threats to Maduro’s regime have so far lacked sufficient menace and credibility to scare Maduro’s supporters out of their money-grubbing sloth.
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Ivan Briscoe,
Foreign Affairs,
11 May 2020
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.
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Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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