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Recent Examples of grub
Noun
Mamie’s father Jess Clements, her brother Blake, and a hunting partner of theirs named Miller drove the grub wagon with food and outfit as the two girls followed on horseback. Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025 One by one each of us, some more reluctantly than others, pinched out a grub and swallowed it whole. Bill Frist, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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 His bill is small, yet strong—perfect for grubbing about underwater for aquatic bugs, worms, snails, crayfish, and small mollusks. M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 30 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for grub
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grub
Noun
  • The legislation mandates regular background checks for drivers, requires all rides to be recorded, and bans the exchange of food and drinks between riders and drivers, among other measures.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
  • As proud children of the Caribbean, this legacy project is Vanessa and Marcos’ unique way of highlighting the diverse Caribbean diaspora and its many touch points including travel, music, food, and live culinary experiences.
    Amber Love Bond, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Engels wrote about the emergence of this group of laborers in his 1845 book, The Condition of the Working Class in England.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Some came as agricultural, mining or railway laborers; others served in the British administration or in the Brigade of Gorkhas, an organization in the British Army made up of people from Nepal.
    Emily Fishbein, Hpan Ja Brang, The Dial, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • When Michele Romano went missing last August, her family and their close friend, podcaster Lauren Lee Malloy, labored over flyers bearing her image: a woman with a gentle smile and a spill of braids, wrapped in a cozy, pale rainbow cardigan.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In the early years of the Syrian civil war, Fidan and Erdogan labored to overthrow and install a Sunni regime aligned with Ankara.
    Sinan Ciddi and Jonathan Schanzer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Mental health workers in small towns find such promises hard to trust after seeing local services come and go for years.
    CBS News, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The official number of workers in China’s cities last year was 473.45 million.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • With Andrew Wiggins clearly limited by lower body injuries, Nikola Jović struggling to shoot returning from a hand injury and rookie center Kel’el Ware simply not ready to compete at this high of a level, Miami just couldn’t come close in the end.
    Anthony Slater, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • In Trump's first term, Republicans often struggled to pass major legislation despite holding full control of government, and the party is likely fearing history repeating itself.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At Princeton, for example, the first nine presidents owned slaves.
    Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In fact, there were a number of indications that the flies, while largely driven by stereotypical responses to specific stimuli, weren't entirely slaves to instinct.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Trading Warren and some other top prospects for Alcántara could work, but what next?
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Thematically, the fractured friendship works well in a story that is so much about the joys of friendship and the pain of a camaraderie betrayed.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Re consecrated the bread and wine for Holy Communion as the Sistine Chapel Choir, made up of 20 men and 30 boys, chanted.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Tomato slices are slipping out, pickles are disappearing and the bread can get soggy. Build a better burger like this: Toast the bun.
    Joe Difazio, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Grub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grub. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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