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burrow

[bur-oh, buhr-oh] / ˈbɜr oʊ, ˈbʌr oʊ /
NOUN
hole dug by animal
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VERB
dig a hole
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In one video, a female marmot chases away a male who got too comfortable in her burrow.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Compared with brachiopods, bivalves have greater energy demands because of their larger bodies and muscular "foot" that allows them to burrow and crawl.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Diggers are already clearing parts of the OPP complex, shaking the ruins even as volunteers and families continue to burrow for the bodies of loved ones.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

She needs both to move on from the tragedy and to burrow deeper into its mystery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

I hope my words burrow down inside her.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

It burrows deep into the legal past in search of an artifact that will indisputably resolve a difficult issue—even though 21st-century English speakers can read our Constitution without difficulty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Trail parking lots there sit next to a boulder-strewn meadow where marmot mothers nurse their young in burrows, making nearby cars irresistible targets, said park spokeswoman Holly Streit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

But wildlife experts are very familiar with the little penguins' burrows at Phillip Island and St Kilda, he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Along with the droppings and camera trap evidence, burrows in the mud bank are also a good indication of the population.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Even Clover and Haystack found that they could manage pretty well and boasted that they would bear the warren’s first litters in burrows that they had dug for themselves.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

A punk-vicious “Subdivisions” — “Be cool or be cast out,” go the lyrics — benefited from added grit, while 1984’s “Distant Early Warning” burrowed into nuclear anxiety with unstoppable momentum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

For the sequel, Disney marketers relied heavily on details from the 2006 original that have burrowed their way into the zeitgeist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Suddenly, the Irish tails were up and replacement prop Michael Milne burrowed over.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

During Thanksgiving week, from the soft neutral cocoon of my parents’ guest room, I burrowed into an impulsive rewatch of the BBC “Sherlock” — yes, the Benedict Cumberbatch era, all sculptural cheekbones and good outerwear.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

But after the retreat, when someone else, someone impartial and from the East Coast, deemed me Juilliard worthy, the idea burrowed into Gran’s brain.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

Scabies is caused by microscopic mites burrowing under the skin and it spreads through close skin contact.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Granted, the bar for Netflix movies has long since descended past Hell’s ninth circle, burrowing so low that it’s carved out a 10th reserved for the streamer’s original titles.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Also detailed in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is the first record of another amphibian: the Mexican burrowing toad —Rhinophrynus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Construction appears ongoing at the site, which includes tunnels burrowing into the granite mountain from the east and west.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Wherever he normally had hair, they were burrowing into his skin and making him itch.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren




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