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The gilded grub became something of a sensation at this year’s Formula One Miami Grand Prix and Miami Open tennis tournament, starring in countless social media videos and selling out at both events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The beds and food bowls are gone; the floor where they always left messes after devouring the grub I made them is eerily clean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He replied "grub" when asked about Britain's disgraced former prince Andrew, and "winner" at the mention of Melbourne-born Formula One driver Oscar Piastri.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

Or was it a food stall dishing out free grub?

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

When ingested by a foraging beetle grub they multiply prodigiously in its blood, causing it to turn an abnormally white color, hence the popular name, “milky disease.”

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

But there’s a worse problem: grubs, the larvae of flies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

She uses it to tap fatefully on trees and listen for the tiny movements of tasty grubs within, which she then extracts using those same Nosferatu phalanges.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

A few days later, workers for a lawn-care company let themselves into our backyard to treat it for grubs.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

The ground-dwelling birds were in thick vegetation near a rocky river - perhaps a good spot to find grubs and insects.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2023

No method had been developed for growing the disease organism in an artificial medium, but a satisfactory substitute was evolved; infected grubs are ground up, dried, and combined with chalk.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Prized ancient vineyards across France are being grubbed up.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

Throughout Europe, in California and Chile, Australia and South Africa, old vineyards have been grubbed up and replaced, either with newer vineyards that were more productive or with grapes deemed more in demand.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

This summer, the Matinicus Rock team grubbed a 32-year-old puffin — one of the original birds in Project Puffin, brought down from Newfoundland as a chick and raised on Seal Island.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2022

But it was nearly lost for ever: in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge ordered that Cambodia’s pepper vines be grubbed up and replaced with rice paddies.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2015

I couldn’t think at first what would make the sort of light I needed, then recollected a clump of bear grass that Mama’d recently grubbed out, where she wanted to start a new fall garden.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

It was a dangerous, pungent way to make a pittance, and I wonder what my Victorian sisters would think of grubbing around in the mud for the sheer joy of it.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2020

There was a lot of greedy grubbing for grants.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2020

Much of it, indeed, is conducted at ground level, with Tom grubbing for mushrooms or eating a hard-boiled egg and then strewing the shell fragments around a vegetable patch.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2018

"This isn't a statesmanlike speech, this is one of somebody grubbing around in the weeds for weak arguments and it's a very poor speech in that regard."

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2018

This woman nodded to me briefly, and then called to her little boy who was grubbing with some kittens at the back.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier