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Recent Examples of clawEaton is still clawing its way back from the DeepSeek selloff that started in late January.—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 9 May 2025 At a moment when the crypto industry is trying to claw its way back to respectability and legitimization, Trump has taken every opportunity to cement it in the minds of the Americans as nothing more than a vehicle for channeling money directly to him.—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025 Bosco was saved from elimination by a golden chocolate bar in season 14 and clawed her way to the finale.—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025 Leahy posted 2 1/3 innings of clutch relief, scattering two hits and striking out two as the St. Louis Cardinals clawed their way to a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, extending their winning streak to an MLB-best nine games.—Katie Woo, New York Times, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for claw
When an egg burrows into this tissue to start growing into a fetus, the blood vessels may bleed slightly.
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Lisa McCarty,
SELF,
21 May 2025
Another theory suggests that extreme winter weather may have caused their deaths while hibernating, as frogs burrow into the mud but can succumb to particularly harsh freezes.
Republican bill cuts Medicaid for unemployed, undocumented children, Planned Parenthood How much do Americans rely on programs like Medicaid and Social Security?
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Riley Beggin,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
During that same period, the company cut 3,000 jobs.
Working with 1 fish fillet at a time, dredge fish in flour on all sides.
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Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
7 May 2025
The result is that deep within Jupiter's atmosphere, there are patches of ammonia that fell as mush balls from storms raging dozens of miles above – and that ammonia will stay buried down there until the next big storm dredges it up.
Hard-line opposition figures contend that the threats to Maduro’s regime have so far lacked sufficient menace and credibility to scare Maduro’s supporters out of their money-grubbing sloth.
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Ivan Briscoe,
Foreign Affairs,
11 May 2020
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.
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Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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