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Recent Examples of claw
With just weeks remaining in the regular season, the New Jersey Devils (36-25-6) will look to claw their way up the playoff ladder, while the Pittsburgh Penguins (27-31-10) hope to go on a last-minute run to sneak into the postseason.
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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
While Mills clawed its way back, Notre Dame continued to hit 3s at will, seemingly putting the game just out of reach for the Vikings.
—Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
Most exciting is the sensation of each of the four wheels digging and grabbing, clawing to put down torque, all metered by fine scripting, virtually no power wasted.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Fernandes answered that particular jibe with a free kick that clawed his team back into the game, but their half-time encounter feels emblematic of United’s position in the Premier League food chain: vulnerable and there to be mocked.
—Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
While Mills clawed its way back, Notre Dame continued to hit 3s at will, seemingly putting the game just out of reach for the Vikings.
—Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
Most exciting is the sensation of each of the four wheels digging and grabbing, clawing to put down torque, all metered by fine scripting, virtually no power wasted.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Fernandes answered that particular jibe with a free kick that clawed his team back into the game, but their half-time encounter feels emblematic of United’s position in the Premier League food chain: vulnerable and there to be mocked.
—Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
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In the Balsall Heath neighborhood, wind whistles through the puncture marks in one rotting heap where the rats and mice have burrowed in.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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The draft apparatus burrows into Boulder this weekend.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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On the Better Business Bureau’s website, 939 customer reviews give the company an average 1.28 rating out of 5, offering lacerating complaints about dirty and broken equipment, delivery delays, nightmarish customer service, improper billings, and harassing sales and collection calls.—
Peter Elkind,
ProPublica,
10 Mar. 2025
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Bong Joon Ho Comments South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite, a lacerating thriller about a family of grifters who overplay their hand, is arguably the greatest film of the past decade.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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To avoid this issue, coat your snow shovel with cooking spray before shoveling snow.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Mar. 2025
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Samuel Girard spun to the middle of the ice and shoveled the puck toward the net.—
Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2025
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The mom of one most notably cut her hair in January 2023, debuting a head-turning, blunt bob.—
Dayna Haffenden,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Logistics giants elsewhere in the supply chain are cutting employees as well.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Apr. 2025
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Thaw them, cut them, and then dredge it and deep fry it and then stir fry it.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appétit,
19 Mar. 2025
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Use the straw as a single chopstick to dredge the fruit up to the rim?—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2025
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The band is wide enough to avoid creating rolls, while not bruising my armpits with underwire.—
Andrea Jordan,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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In surgery, certain risks are universal—infection, hematoma and seroma (collections of blood or fluid under the skin), swelling, bruising, pain, and poor healing, to name a few.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
10 Apr. 2025
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But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie as told by Craig Brown Air Supply The Constant Gardener Spring is in the air, and AIR SUPPLY’s latest collection is ripe for the picking.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
23 Mar. 2024
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Durham University's archaeologists excavated the site in 2022.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
6 Apr. 2025
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Archaeologists excavating a massive tomb in Pompeii unearthed extremely rare, nearly life-size marble statues that shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Claw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claw. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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