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a bad-tempered scolding woman
Rip Van Winkle went off into the mountains to escape his wife, a shrew who made his life miserable
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Recent Examples of shrews
In animal studies, TDN helped obese mice and musk shrews lose weight and become more responsive to insulin.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
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furies
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Just as players once had to fight the three furies in later runs of Hades, the Oceanus boss fight requires Melinoë to fight a trio of sirens — each with their own move set, weapons, and health — in order to move forward.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2025
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Järvi presented these three pieces at Carnegie, but in a way that emphasized their inner tensions and hidden furies.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Shrews.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrews. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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