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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

How did a recherché, quasi-French dish leave the skillful hands of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved cooks and wind up being popular grub for millions of today’s cooks and consumers, white and—emphatically—black?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Or was it a food stall dishing out free grub?

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

Customers lean over counters and scarf down the grub from plastic plates.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024

The prince, he knew, had never been starved enough to pick out wildlife from his grub.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Richard Gray, the head of the biodiversity and wildlife Branch at the NIEA, said the "aggressive predator" can have nests with "up to 8,000 individual hornets or grubs".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

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

Some may overwinter as adults, others in their immature stage as grubs, caterpillars or nymphs, while others will be in the pupal stage like a chrysalis or cocoon.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

They stopped chasing the rock rabbits and started to eat grubs from the ground.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

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

After much exhausting digging, he grubbed up four more, ate two, and stuffed two in his jerkin for later.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

When the rail authority bought the farms surrounding their home, about 50 miles south of Fresno, it let the crops die without grubbing the fields, the source of the pest problem, say the couple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

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

You couldn’t expect a well-known musician to go grubbing behind a garbage can.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey