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Recent Examples of claw
The Dallas Cowboys’ Thanksgiving clash with the Kansas City Chiefs had huge playoff implications for both teams, who are trying to claw their way back into the NFL playoff picture.
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Nov. 2025
Early in the second, the Nittany Lions moved sophomore and leading scorer Charlie Cerrato onto his line with Reese Laubach to try to kickstart their offense and claw their way back into the game.
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Democrats managed to claw that seat back in 2024 only by a tight margin, in one of the most expensive House races in the country that year.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
Orr's own story is based in real life, telling the story of Elisabeth Bergner, who hired a fan as an assistant and watched her try to claw her way into besting Bergner in every area of her life and career.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Nov. 2025
Early in the second, the Nittany Lions moved sophomore and leading scorer Charlie Cerrato onto his line with Reese Laubach to try to kickstart their offense and claw their way back into the game.
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Democrats managed to claw that seat back in 2024 only by a tight margin, in one of the most expensive House races in the country that year.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
Orr's own story is based in real life, telling the story of Elisabeth Bergner, who hired a fan as an assistant and watched her try to claw her way into besting Bergner in every area of her life and career.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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Now, a team of researchers in China has crossed this barrier by producing a miniature womb on a chip that faithfully recreates how human embryos attach to and burrow into the uterine lining.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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Chinese mitten crabs burrow into levees, dikes, and stream banks, increasing erosion and threatening flood-control systems.—
Staff Author Updated,
PEOPLE,
3 Dec. 2025
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In the process, one robber violently shoved the store’s octogenarian owner to the ground, police said, leaving him bloodied and lacerated from numerous shards of glass.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025
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Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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Guests can add nearly any luxury, from childcare to shoveling snow.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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There’s no equivalent of the Iraq Liberation Act shoveling money his way.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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Carolina cut the lead 17-14 at halftime after a 1-yard touchdown run by Hubbard and a 16-yard scramble by Young, the second-longest TD run of his career.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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This same staff cut him to make room for a waiver-wire claim before the start of the 2024 season.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Jan. 2026
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In the film, Emma Stone's Bella Baxter is dredged from the river after dying by suicide, then reanimated by Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), possessing the body of a woman and the brain of a baby.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour, shaking off excess.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Southern Living,
2 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The Magic have also been without All-Defensive guard Jalen Suggs for 10 of the past 12 games first because of a left hip bruise and then a right knee MCL bruise.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 Jan. 2026
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That book’s thrilling confidences have been partly supplanted in The Four Spent the Day Together by embittered score-settling (recounting her bruising run-in with cancel culture, e.g.).—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 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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So much of the story takes place firmly in and on the ground, whether its characters are grubbing around the countryside or descending six feet under.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
30 Mar. 2024
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Among them, a hominin femur that was excavated from the cave bears teeth marks.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
7 Jan. 2026
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Recovering lost cultural history Malawi was a British colony when Hora 1 was first excavated in 1950, a time when archaeology seemed more like treasure hunting than science, Thompson said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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