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Recent Examples of claw
The evaluation of a plan to sell the store to a new owner/operator
If Community Builders doesn’t fulfill those requirements, the city can claw the rest of the money back.
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David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2025
Slowly but surely, the Masters appear to be clawing their way back to the viewership of a decade ago, when 14M watched Jordan Spieth’s win.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
Billions of cicadas claw their way to the surface after spending nearly their entire lives underground, waiting for the moment to molt, mate and vanish.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Artificial grass also holds up well to the wear and tear caused by pets, including digging and clawing.
—Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2025
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David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2025
Slowly but surely, the Masters appear to be clawing their way back to the viewership of a decade ago, when 14M watched Jordan Spieth’s win.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
Billions of cicadas claw their way to the surface after spending nearly their entire lives underground, waiting for the moment to molt, mate and vanish.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Artificial grass also holds up well to the wear and tear caused by pets, including digging and clawing.
—Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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Then, almost all at once, the insects burrow upward and break through the surface of the soil, often making their presence known by erupting in loud and at times constant choruses.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2025
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After that, 13 subcommittees burrowed more deeply into the dense budget documents and provided recommendations to the committee co-chairwomen.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
22 Apr. 2025
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The accident broke both her legs, lacerated her liver, damaged her colon, severed an artery in her right leg, and collapsed her lung.—
Jordan Rau,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2025
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On the Better Business Bureau’s website, 939 customer reviews give the company an average 1.28 rating out of 5, offering lacerating complaints about dirty and broken equipment, delivery delays, nightmarish customer service, improper billings, and harassing sales and collection calls.—
Peter Elkind,
ProPublica,
10 Mar. 2025
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Over the years, players, including Durham, sometimes gave Wickers money to supplement his income from washing windows, shoveling snow and other odd jobs.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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There’s also evidence that the ship’s engineers left the boilers on, shoveling coal into the furnaces to keep electricity running.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2025
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With the new order, Trump is threatening to cut federal funds to cities and states his Administration decides are blocking his mass deportation effort.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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The state says the rule is crucial to meeting greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and cutting smog-forming pollutants.—
David Shepardson,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Some of the toxic sediment has been dredged, including in the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, and other sediment has been capped.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2025
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After letting the chicken marinate, dredge the chicken in the flour mixture, pressing to ensure that the chicken is evenly coated and the flour is adhering securely.—
Jessica Fields,
Essence,
28 Feb. 2025
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This type of groin strain is more likely to cause bruising and swelling.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
22 Apr. 2025
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Detroit’s starting center, Jalen Duren, is 6-10, while backup Isaiah Stewart is 6-8 but known for his bruising style of play.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Ivan Briscoe,
Foreign Affairs,
11 May 2020
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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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In the 1930s, workers using explosives and machinery excavated a 13-mile tunnel beneath Mt. San Jacinto to bring Colorado River water to Southern California.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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The rail crossing at Southwest Highway and Kilbourn Avenue in Oak Lawn will close for 10 days next month to excavate and replace the rail at a crossing used often by emergency vehicles.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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