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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

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

Foodies will be able to buy hot and cold grub during the event.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

Watching with delight in spring as a male redbird presents his mate with an edible demonstration of his “fitness as a partner,” she comments, “In the avian world, a grub is an engagement ring.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

‘He's frightened, and he’s very tired, and this hobbit’s not nice, not nice at all. Sméagol won’t grub for roots and carrotses and — taters. What’s taters, precious, eh, what’s taters?’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Their larvae, called grubs, often feast on the organic matter in compost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

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: When the lawn is looking bad, it may be tempting to look for something to kill — fungus, grubs, burrowing animals — but the most likely source of the problem is your irrigation system.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

A dozen different sorts of meat and fish were served: camel, crocodile, singing squid, lacquered ducks and spiny grubs, with goat and ham and horse for those whose tastes were less exotic.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Prized ancient vineyards across France are being grubbed up.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

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

“The natural underwood has been grubbed up,” Olmsted wrote at the time, “the trees, to a height of 10 to 15 feet, trimmed to bare poles.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2016

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

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

My grade grubbing was so intense that my Latin teacher called me the “millimeter bandit.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2017

Now we're just another bunch of money grubbing, greedy yokels.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2016

He startled a young boar grubbing up pignuts, and grunted a quick apology to ward off an attack.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver