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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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

Behind the pub grub menu is a new chef, Jonah Johnson of Jonah’s Kitchen in Santa Monica, who replaced Andrea Drummer, who was at the helm the first time around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

You bet he will, as long as there’s any grub or warmth going, but surely we’re not going to have the warren overrun with mice and—and stag beetles, are we?”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

The masked-bandit bottom feeders of the forest are notoriously adept at finding everything from grubs under your sod to chicken in your tent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

They performed a crazy kind of dance with their claws to scratch apart the caked manure and expose the meaty grubs within.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

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

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2012

I couldn’t think at first what would make the sort of light I needed, then recollected a clump of bear grass that Mama’d recently grubbed out, where she wanted to start a new fall garden.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

We have to ask ourselves as a society: Do we want college to be a place of intellectual growth or a performative exercise in grade grubbing?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

We’re soon on our knees, grubbing in the dirt.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 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

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

“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