claw
Example Sentences
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Players can lose all their market share in one year, however, though they can claw back if they make a shrewd investment and it pays off.
Paws need claws: Declawing a cat in California is now illegal unless the surgery is medically necessary.
From Los Angeles Times
On both occasions, they clawed their way back in a historic victory that rewrote a long-standing narrative of teams rich in talent but brittle under pressure.
From BBC
Cake is good, but if young Americans are going to claw back genuine community from the digital age, they’re going to need more practice.
In the middle, a small finch was desperately trying to free his legs, but the more it moved, the more its claws became tangled.
From BBC
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