grub
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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
Travel around Duwamish Head, West Seattle’s northernmost point, toward Alki Beach, where you can grab some grub and stick your feet in the sand.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
“Nobody ain’t got no time tuh hold yo’ grub up in front uh yo’ face,” she told Coodemay.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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
Rant to the crows who dig for grubs and leave a muddy mess on the sidewalk.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Over time, we were able to lock down the dumpsters and force the animals to feed on seeds, bugs, grubs, grasses and all the other natural foods that keep them healthy and fit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
They trim the edges of spongy Bermuda grass lawns and attack the grubs, fire ants, and weeds.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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
Cyclists helped save many roads from being grubbed up.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011
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
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
“We go grubbing along day after day, without a bit of change, and very little fun. We might as well be in a treadmill.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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