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Recent Examples of burrows
Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
The larvae then hatches from the eggs and burrows into tissue of animals to feed on them.
—Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025
An invasive species Green iguanas are an invasive species in Florida known for eating through landscaping and digging burrows that undermine infrastructure.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Hours later, after dodging cow patties the size of dinner plates and gaping holes leading to marmot burrows, the locations are chosen and the traps are set.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 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
The frogs live most of their lives in their underground burrows but can be found in ponds during breeding season beginning in March and running through mid-April.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
In the heat of the day, desert-dwelling snakes will retreat into shade or rodent burrows to shield themselves from the scorching sun.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
Solo wasps survive the winter as juveniles in places such as underground burrows, hollow stems, or cavities, says Hayes.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrows
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Scan treetops for high points with clear views of the surrounding landscape for nests.—
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As Interesting Engineering reported in July 2025, workers at the Savannah River Site discovered a series of radioactive wasp nests during routine inspections near the F-Area Tank Farm.—
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This time around, while Chambers remains turned away, Teasdale crouches with an unsettling smile and long fingernails, conjuring a skin-crawling suspense.—
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This is all before Raleigh crouches behind the plate for roughly three hours, calling 150 pitches a night and manning a 13-person pitching staff’s stuff, repertoire, and personality.—
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These involve raiding the lairs of hoodlum rivals, then singlehandedly dissuading them from competition.—
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Squire squats down in a patch of dead grass along the edge of a creek.—
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Jeanroy squats down, nudges Taïga aside, and starts digging with a cavadou—a sort of pick that resembles a very scary dental tool.—
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DiDonato has appeared on catwalks for major fashion houses and has featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar.—
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Events across the region are taking place all day at schools, local businesses, houses of worship and burned down local landmarks in various stages of rebuilding.—
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Instead, the playbook is straightforward – identify a problem, then propose an overly restrictive governing scheme that couches the political favoritism as a beneficial expansion of the regulatory state.—
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As Polly excavates the darkest parts of herself, the film can’t string together a build to match the depths of her soul-searching.—
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Deep into the opening-night party at the Middleburg Film Festival, Joel Edgerton hunches over a cocktail table, flipping through the event’s official program.—
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Amid hunting for clues on the case, Tom hunches over his desk, lazily shoveling sausage-and-onion sandwiches into his mouth.—
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“Burrows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrows. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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