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Recent Examples of claw
Despite facing a real estate behemoth intent on clawing them out of their homes, tenants are fighting back and fundraising for the Chelsea Public Housing Legal Defense Fund to help desperate seniors stay in their apartments.
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Stacy Torres, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
And her voice like a claw, too, clawing at the air between us.
—Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
Martini plays Porter Baldwin, a cutthroat East Coast businessman clawing his way back to respectability through a land swindle in the West.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
And the horror beats are suitably chilling, like the blood bug, or especially the eyeball monster — an eyeball that moves on tentacles, and that contains multiple irises that can combine to resemble a human or animal iris — clawing its way out of the cat’s skull to attack people.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
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Stacy Torres, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
And her voice like a claw, too, clawing at the air between us.
—Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
Martini plays Porter Baldwin, a cutthroat East Coast businessman clawing his way back to respectability through a land swindle in the West.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
And the horror beats are suitably chilling, like the blood bug, or especially the eyeball monster — an eyeball that moves on tentacles, and that contains multiple irises that can combine to resemble a human or animal iris — clawing its way out of the cat’s skull to attack people.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 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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The problem is, H.R. Giger’s design of the Xenomorph doesn’t include visible eyes, so there’s no clear socket for the eyeball to burrow into.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
2 Sep. 2025
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His desperate, lacerating Teddy is a character who has ruined his own life, who has martyred himself out of his devotion to The Truth.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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Australian playwright Tony McNamara has turned his side hustle as a screenwriter into a blessing for Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite), and viewers of The Great, his bawdy historical farce for Hulu, can attest to his love of layered, lacerating insults.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
27 Aug. 2025
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Soldiers have also been spotted in parks carrying out tasks typically assigned to gardeners and landscapers – shoveling mulch, blowing leaves and scooping up trash.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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On third-and-2 at the CU 20, the Buffs QB hurried left with seemingly the entire Houston defense in pursuit, spotted Omarion Miller just past the line of scrimmage, and shoveled him the ball before the red jerseys closed in.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
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Others have cut bills by a factor of five.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Jobless claims hit their highest level since 2021 last week, adding to recent labor market revisions that have fueled confidence the Fed will cut rates in September.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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Whisk together flour and garlic powder in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour mixture, shaking off excess.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
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Colombia could have avoided the specter of a landlocked Leticia had dredged the smaller branch of the Amazon River that now flows past the town.—
John Otis,
NPR,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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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The estate was excavated in Kafr Qasim, a city in the central region of the country.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Covered in concrete and lost to time for decades, the vats were rediscovered and excavated in 2016 within a building that hugs the Kentucky River.—
Robin Roenker,
Southern Living,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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