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Recent Examples of grovel
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.
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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
But the argument that the US has often leveled — that China is a predatory actor on the world stage, using trade and investment to bend countries to its will — has become harder to make in a world where the president of the United States is bragging about the countries coming to grovel before him.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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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
But the argument that the US has often leveled — that China is a predatory actor on the world stage, using trade and investment to bend countries to its will — has become harder to make in a world where the president of the United States is bragging about the countries coming to grovel before him.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grovel
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Some laugh, others cringe — but there’s always a reaction.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
30 July 2025
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What is transgressive, indie and anti-woke today will one day be normie, derivative, and cringe.—
John McDermott,
Rolling Stone,
6 July 2025
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Adam crawls along the floor, left, about to put his finger in an electrical outlet, right, while his baby watches from afar.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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This setup enabled the robots to crawl using sequential contractions and relaxation—much like a caterpillar.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
12 Aug. 2025
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However, Machado flinched as the ball approached and then zipped past his glove.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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Nolan Gorman led off the Cardinals’ ninth with a double, but Vodnik didn’t flinch.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
13 Aug. 2025
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Still, Windows 11, the figure Microsoft is keenest to see grow is creeping up and is now at 59.9%, almost exactly three fifths, then.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Raven motifs crept into the production design at every turn: Nevermore Academy’s front gates, Principal Weems’ office, roof tiles that resembled feathers, and the school’s mascot.—
Daron James,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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Nine-year-old Cole Morris cowered in between his grandfather and seven of their family members, whispering prayers as rising floodwaters lapped furiously at the stairs of their attic.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
4 Aug. 2025
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Don’t cower to the bullies who want to make everything a tale of oppression — even a fun ad campaign for jeans.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
1 Aug. 2025
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Looking like a wild morning glory, field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) is a vigorous perennial vine that often snakes its way up, over, and through your garden plants.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
9 Aug. 2025
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Telltale details of artifice surface in these larger gallery images: Backdrops emerge more prominently, noticeable seams and threads materialize in artificial arrangements, a layer of dust coats a fake bamboo plant, a rubber hose snakes into a seemingly untrammeled landscape.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
4 Aug. 2025
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But, by 2024, Russia had slid further down the Corruption Perceptions Index to 154th place, tied with Azerbaijan, Honduras and Lebanon.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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Horton slid into the No. 5 slot in the Cubs rotation, behind Matthew Boyd, Colin Ray, Shota Imanaga, and Javier Assad.—
Bernie Pleskoff,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Now, in the franchise’s first television offering, similar creatures crash-land on Earth from a spaceship and crawl and slither into a future version of our world, dominated by cutthroat corporations such as the one that designed Wendy as the next step in human consciousness.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
23 July 2025
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According to World Atlas, a gopher snake once slithered aboard a motorboat on Lake Pleasant, and rattlesnakes have been filmed swimming across the surface.—
Olivia Rose,
AZCentral.com,
22 July 2025
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“Grovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grovel. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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