worm
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He still needed the international worm to turn.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
"The screw worm can be detected easily, and it can be treated," he told journalists.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
This is a case of the early bird losing the worm.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
It has helped give mezcal an air of mystery for decades, but scientists have now shown that this famous bottle stowaway is not a worm at all.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
You looked at another squashed worm on the sidewalk.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
Forestry and Land Scotland has also confirmed the presence of slow worms in the wider restoration area, although reptile population numbers are not known.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Since then, her net worth has doubled, and while most of us can’t claim to know her on a personal level, from the outside it seems she has developed billionaire brain worms.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
On the remote east side of Mono Lake, he said the animals gobbled down grass, roots and all, depriving certain birds of the worms that live in the vegetation — their sustenance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Before you know it, white worms are wriggling and swarming in every garbage bag and along the walls and floors and underlids of every trash can.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“There’s more worms than grain in our meal.”
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
"Or they've wormed their way in through a friend. They get their foot in the door and it goes from there."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
On this latest go-round, I was in therapy largely for approval: my therapist’s, yes, but also whatever prevailing cultural “wisdom” had wormed its way into my brain.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2024
But it’s the show’s particular brand of rock opera sorcery that wormed its way into my heart and took hold.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
For years, ProPublica has reported on these dubious techniques as they've wormed their way into every corner of our real-life criminal justice system.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
But suppose something had happened to him....Meggie shook her head as if to drive away the bad thoughts that had wormed their way in yet again.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
After all, it’s unclear whether there’s a technical solution to keeping A.I. from worming into student papers.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2022
The result is a mesmerizing nod to the olden days, a vertigo of queasy strings, brass and wobbly piano that feeds the paranoia and mysterious atmosphere while worming into the brain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
According to NBC News, Rove has been quietly worming his way into the campaign for some time:
From Salon ● May 22, 2020
As any writer knows , stories have a way of worming their way into their creators’ lives.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018
Cristobal Mondragon, Joe’s third-youngest brother, had half his pinkie bitten off when he lost hold of the nose twitch on a horse he was worming.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
