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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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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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“Shrews.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrews. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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