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Recent Examples of claw
But for Season 2, MrBeast and his crew realized viewers wanted to know a little more about the contestants that managed to claw their way to the top.
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The Deadline Team,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
Life without either, the pair determine, has left Leonora morose, maladjusted and desperate to claw her way back to the road not taken.
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Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
McLaughlin moved into the fight for the lead when the race went back to green, going three-wide at one stage with Palou and Daly, but Malukas managed to claw his way back to the front before the penultimate round of pit stops.
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Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
24 May 2026
If the novelty of his fish-out-of-water conceit eventually runs thin, Garcia brings it to a satisfying conclusion, in which a man caught in the past tries to claw his way back to the real world.
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Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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The Deadline Team,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
Life without either, the pair determine, has left Leonora morose, maladjusted and desperate to claw her way back to the road not taken.
—
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
McLaughlin moved into the fight for the lead when the race went back to green, going three-wide at one stage with Palou and Daly, but Malukas managed to claw his way back to the front before the penultimate round of pit stops.
—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
24 May 2026
If the novelty of his fish-out-of-water conceit eventually runs thin, Garcia brings it to a satisfying conclusion, in which a man caught in the past tries to claw his way back to the real world.
—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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The eggs hatch, burrow into the bloodstream, and then go wandering around, embedding in various tissues, muscles, and organs, including the brain.
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This fly's larvae uniquely burrow into live tissue, causing rapid, potentially fatal damage within 7-14 days if untreated.
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That biography took the form of a dark romance between the self-lacerating Louis and his fiercely loving but brutal maker, Lestat, filtered through the former’s brooding subjectivity.
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The industry’s issues have come up in debates and on the campaign trail, certainly, but perhaps not so much as challenger (and ex-reality TV villain) Spencer Pratt’s lacerating AI videos about Bass’ role in last year’s devastating Pacific Palisades fires.
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Spielberg didn’t film those terrifying closeups of the shark – like when Jaws pops up as Brody is shoveling the bloody chump slick in the water — until Day 92.
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Dancers in tennis skirts twirled around with rackets while breaking to move plants and shovel dirt.
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Kirkmeyer has campaigned on affordability and safety issues, Bottoms is pushing for a redo of the state's education system among other things and Marx wants to cut regulations and lower the cost of living.
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Terrell Carstens, a 25-year resident of Brookhaven, said she is frustrated the city made little effort to find places to cut costs instead of raising the rate.
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When drought tightens the channel, water managers, dredge crews, and lock operators must communicate with towboat companies and shippers nearly every moment.
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It’s then dredged in seasoned flour—key for both browning and flavor—before pan-frying in a mixture of olive oil and butter.
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Fruits such as strawberries and raspberries have a narrow harvest window and can bruise easily during picking, transportation and storage.
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Some varieties of slicing cucumbers have very tender skins and bruise easily.
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Double-bass glissandos hint at hands grubbing in the earth, while abrupt moments of concerted action—notably, an accordion wheezing out an F-sharp-minor chord—suggest flickering signals and transmissions.
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Released in 1958, Attack told of a wealthy heiress, fresh from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then deals with her philandering husband and his no-good, money-grubbing floozy.
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In addition to excavating the property, investigators have seized financial records, adoption records and business records.
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Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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