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Recent Examples of grovelAs the Cabinet went around the room, even some conservatives denounced the display of groveling before Trump.—Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2025 Related Articles Letters: Apple’s biggest problem is groveling for Trump
Trump’s commerce secretary says new electronics tariff exemptions are temporary, chip tariffs coming
These Silicon Valley tech leaders donated to Donald Trump.—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2025 What begins as a modest levy swells into a sprawling system, where bureaucrats decide who pays, who benefits, and who grovels for exemptions.—Jon Fleischman, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025 Of course, that doesn’t apply in Trump’s government where merit is completely overridden by groveling and total worship of the president.—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grovel
In 2021, Cookie reminded her church friends to watch the Hulu show based on my book Dopesick, only to cringe at the gay storyline and multiple f‑bombs in the first episode.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
Snoop Dogg attempted a bit of the foreign tongue, but Niall Horan was right to cringe at his efforts.
After all, Santos believes right-leaning voices shouldn’t cower just because their positions deviate from the Hollywood norm.
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Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
Anyone living in one of the dozens of surrounding villages, such as Nazareth, who was not rounded up must have cowered in fear behind closed doors or hidden in the various underground cisterns and hewn chambers beneath the ancient houses and courtyards of the Jewish villages.
Farther north in Al Mawasi, just west of Khan Younis, the thousands of tents snake their way up the coast, taking over any inch of available space, creating a semblance of a new city among the canvas, according to satellite images viewed by ABC News.
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Victoria Beaule,
ABC News,
7 Oct. 2025
Of course, a raw peak power figure looks impressive on paper but is far from the bottom line when snaking your way up and down mountains of sand in the desert.
As Allure previously reported, there were no incidents of capsular contracture, rupture, infection, malposition (implants sliding out of place), inflammatory reactions, or hematoma (blood pooling under the skin) in the Mia trial.
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Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
15 Oct. 2025
Tire tread depth - Checking your tire tread before hitting the road is important, as low or no tread can lead to sliding.
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NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Oct. 2025
In August, Kravitz told Meyers that her mom's pet snake, Orpheus, had gotten loose and slithered into a small hole in the corner of the bathroom.
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Bryan West,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Mercury and later the sun will slither through Scorpio, energizing your creative and romantic sector, sparking ideas and potential passion projects.
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