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Recent Examples of burrow
Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
The Burrowing Owl requires large tracts of open ground, preferably with areas of bare soil, for its underground nesting burrows.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Because the surface of the cornea contains multiple tiny microabrasions from your contact rubbing against it, these can function as openings for the amoeba to infiltrate—and the longer you’re exposed to it, the further in it can burrow.
—Holly Burns, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Not camping, sleeping or resting near animal burrows or areas where dead rodents are observed.
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The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices.
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In some species, ants restructure their nests to slow the transmission of a lethal fungus and in others, ant queens eat infected brood to prevent the spread of disease and recover nutrients.—
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Two recent fires at PG&E substations cut power to thousands, drew condemnation from members of Congress, and spotlighted a year full of safety and maintenance violations at the utility giant’s substations throughout the region, from oil leaks to broken cooling fans and birds’ nests in equipment.—
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However, the Trojans would claw their way back into contention late.—
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The titular character, played by Chalamet, is a scrappy kid trying to claw his way out of the shtetl of the Lower East Side through his Ping-Pong prowess and charismatic hucksterism.—
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My first glimpse of a gorilla was brief, a large male on the path ahead, crouching, his fists pressed into the soil.—
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As Rathbun and other officers retreated, Webster clenched both fists, crouched into a linebacker’s stance, and charged into Rathbun, knocking him to the ground.—
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Outside of his lair, the world looks barren and deserted, save for a few glowing red rifts in the ground where the world is connected to the Upside Down.—
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Two young women are trapped in the lair of the Mangittatuarjuk, the Gnawer of Rocks.—
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In the film, Emma Stone's Bella Baxter is dredged from the river after dying by suicide, then reanimated by Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), possessing the body of a woman and the brain of a baby.—
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Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour, shaking off excess.—
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Their statements are simply a summary of the law, although couched with political speech.—
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To be clear, revenue share contracts are couched as an intellectual property transaction with the school buying a license to use the athlete’s NIL.—
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How to prepare before strong winds approach Trim tree branches away from your house and power lines.—
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Video from the fire department showed crews pouring water on the house fire at 110th and State on Tuesday morning.—
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Among them, a hominin femur that was excavated from the cave bears teeth marks.—
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Recovering lost cultural history Malawi was a British colony when Hora 1 was first excavated in 1950, a time when archaeology seemed more like treasure hunting than science, Thompson said.—
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“Burrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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