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Recent Examples of burrow
Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
The owls nest in burrows excavated by California ground squirrels, occasionally popping up to stare with striking yellow eyes.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
Owners should fill the bottom of the enclosures with 6 to 15 inches of bedding to allow the animal to burrow, Adler said.
—Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
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Noun
For the lower 3-D level of fossils, the explanation of cause of death is much more banal: burrow collapse.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
The owls nest in burrows excavated by California ground squirrels, occasionally popping up to stare with striking yellow eyes.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
Verb
Pangolins are scaly, anteater-like mammals known for their long tongues, burrowing lifestyles and elusive habits.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
Owners should fill the bottom of the enclosures with 6 to 15 inches of bedding to allow the animal to burrow, Adler said.
—Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow
Noun
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Jackie is often seen doing yoga stretches, egg rolls and nest softening amid incubation periods, while Shadow can be seen bringing home fish and sticks.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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This year, Jackie welcomed the first of three eggs on Jan. 22, and laid two more within the next few days, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley, a conservation organization that operates a live cam of the nest.—
Aliza Chasan,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Boswell clawed its way back and took a brief 15-13 lead when Salena Carrasco buried a three-pointer with 2:58 left in the second quarter.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Feb. 2025
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That meant we were given a warts-and-all window into her endless humiliations, on camera and off, as Valerie attempted to claw her way back into the limelight.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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What disrupts the playful opening to what will become a quietly devastating look at PTSD, however, is a sudden cut to a girl crouching next to the body.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
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Shaver crouched on her knees as the sun started to rise, carefully lifting the hatchlings out of their box and laying them on the sand facing the vast sea, guarding them from crabs and gulls, herding stray hatchlings in the right direction.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The story is rife with twists and turns and Austin Powers–like villains, including an eyepatch-wearing former Nazi who lives in a lair at the top of a mountain.—
Andrea Duncan-Mao,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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People really do it every December when his Christmas album comes out of its lair.—
Julie Jordan,
People.com,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Most of the county’s other coastal lagoons also have been dredged in recent decades, though less frequently, to preserve wetlands habitats and for other environmental reasons.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Now, researchers in London have dated dozens of bones dredged from the river, creating a comprehensive database that has dispelled longstanding theories about why the river came to serve as the final resting place for so many people.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Some were upset that the remarks were overly ambiguous and couched as a mystery or riddle.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Campus antisemitism Some of the coming crackdown will be couched as a reaction to campus antisemitism.—
Michelle Goldberg,
The Mercury News,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Video footage captured plumes of smoke and flames wafting above a treeline and houses in the Carolina Forest.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2025
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Dramatic video from Sunday morning showed firefighters battling flames as the fire neared houses.—
Amy Graff,
New York Times,
2 Mar. 2025
Verb
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According to Windsor police, the man admitted to excavating abalone from rocks along the Mendocino County coast near the town of Elk for personal consumption.—
Suhauna Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
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Read More | 3,000-year-old ruins and artifacts found at massive gold mine in Egypt, photos show Archaeologists excavating the Sukari gold mine in southeastern Egypt uncovered a 3,000-year-old mining camp.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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