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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

The 85-pound turtle earned her nickname from aquarium staffers when she quickly began eating after having her flipper amputated, and her enthusiasm for grub hasn’t waned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

If Sounder was dead, he hoped no one would come along and see him carrying the grub hoe and shovel across the field to the big jack oak.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

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

They are famous for their strange, skinny, long fingers, which they use to fish grubs out of branches.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022

We’d gradually begun to add more foods, especially grubs and ferns, to her plates, and she would eat them when she ran out of peacock snails.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

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

It was straight, just short of a length, and it grubbed hideously to clean Yuvraj up.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2012

Now and then they found a stump with the marks of the axe on it, but mostly these had been carefully covered with brambles or altogether grubbed up.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

“Stand up straight. What’s the matter with you? Jim Bowie, those nails won’t do. You look like you’ve been grubbing in the garden. Calpurnia, take him and fix him.”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly