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Recent Examples of maw
So, the lumbering maw that is our leader is likely to gobble it up.
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Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
Throughout the night and into the next morning, the story ran through the maw of cable news and social media, following the same patterns as the story of Good’s killing earlier in the week.
—James Ross Gardner, New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2026
This meant that world leaders, those who happened to be opposed to the maw of the Western war machine, were now ripe for the taking.
—Séamus Malekafzali, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
The footage shows the fish start to swim faster and more erratically when a large whale suddenly breaks through the school of fish with its gaping maw.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
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Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
Throughout the night and into the next morning, the story ran through the maw of cable news and social media, following the same patterns as the story of Good’s killing earlier in the week.
—James Ross Gardner, New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2026
This meant that world leaders, those who happened to be opposed to the maw of the Western war machine, were now ripe for the taking.
—Séamus Malekafzali, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
The footage shows the fish start to swim faster and more erratically when a large whale suddenly breaks through the school of fish with its gaping maw.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maw
Noun
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The seed emerges from within the boy, who wakes to find it in his mouth—not a date stone, but a polished walnut kernel.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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Do your best to avoid letting your mouth get ahead of your mind.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The cat’s jaws were around Declan.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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Other sufferers, however, who submitted entries to the 1983 Migraine Art Competition, depicted their pain in drawings and paintings of nails, needles, axes, ice picks, arrows, bolts, jaws, chisels, shivs, guns, red-hot spears, sledgehammers, devils, and long pins.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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This mix is a scrumptious way to get vegetables happily down the kid’s gullets.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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He’s gone from champagne to something like vinegar forced down his gullet.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Dec. 2025
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“Maw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maw. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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