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Recent Examples of clawThe Sparks scored the first five points of the second period and clawed to within two on three occasions.—John W. Davis, Oc Register, 17 June 2025 Now — a new moment emerges, as the Florida Panthers claw their way into this legendary lineage.—Kaitlyn Pohly, Miami Herald, 8 June 2025 Jim didn’t mince his words when defending Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s ability to claw the coffee giant out of declining sales, operational issues and a negative perception of the brand.—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 29 May 2025 His first title came in 1964 with the St. Louis Cardinals, who clawed their way into the World Series in the regular season’s final two weeks.—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for claw
Elder told the outlet those who sought medical attention at UMC had injuries ranging from severe head injuries and lacerated spleens to bullet grazes and multiple broken bones.
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Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
5 Jan. 2025
Deputies found her body only partially clothed and had two black eyes, swollen and lacerated lips and other facial injuries.
Adding insult to injury, the state instead continues to shovel millions of dollars toward health care programs for undocumented immigrants — including at least $12 billion in the Legislature’s budget — while underfunding services Californians are paying for and counting on.
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Diane Dixon,
Oc Register,
18 June 2025
The highway was shut down for nearly 14 hours as crews shoveled, hand-picked, and vacuumed the loose coins from the road and nearby brush.
When the city aggressively dredged the bay in the 1960s, the landfill was covered by layers of material that had been dredged, the study said.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
The Infamous Oakmont Rakes—And A Lesson In Player Power
Oakmont’s original bunkers were filled with coarse, rocky sand dredged from the nearby Allegheny River.
Boyd made a sensational catch of a hard liner off the bat of J.P. Crawford to end the fifth, but his left shoulder was bruised on the play and manager Craig Counsell removed him after the inning.
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Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
Mowing too short and mowing with dull, bruising blades stresses the grass, inviting disease.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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
In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few female pharaohs.
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Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
One of its recent big ‘splashes’ was the stunning recreation of a Roman villa within the estate, built after extensive Roman ruins were excavated.
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