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burrow

[bur-oh, buhr-oh] / ˈbɜr oʊ, ˈbʌr oʊ /
NOUN
hole dug by animal
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VERB
dig a hole
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In one video, a female marmot chases away a male who got too comfortable in her burrow.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Diggers are already clearing parts of the OPP complex, shaking the ruins even as volunteers and families continue to burrow for the bodies of loved ones.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

"Some bee species burrow holes in wood or in the ground, or use empty structures for nests. Some species in Europe and Africa even build their nests in empty snail shells,"

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Yet his creation continues to burrow into public consciousness, perhaps too deep to be dislodged by anything less than a scalpel—or a spoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Ajax found the biggest burrow I’d seen in a long while.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The survey involved researchers sweeping back and forth across the island over a six-day period, counting burrows and assessing whether they were used by puffins or rabbits.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Trail parking lots there sit next to a boulder-strewn meadow where marmot mothers nurse their young in burrows, making nearby cars irresistible targets, said park spokeswoman Holly Streit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Bold Coast Charter’s trips allow participants to land on an island and spend a couple of hours in blinds to see and photograph at close range puffins gathered on rocks above their nesting burrows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

But wildlife experts are very familiar with the little penguins' burrows at Phillip Island and St Kilda, he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

“You were out of the Near Hind burrows this afternoon?” began Woundwort.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

In the past five years, the retail crowd has burrowed into nearly every corner of Wall Street—piling into the artificial-intelligence trade, placing wagers on prediction markets and live-tweeting company earnings calls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

The two-year-old male, named Neukgu, burrowed under a fence at Daejeon O-World zoo and theme park in the central city of Daejeon on Wednesday, officials said.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

Suddenly, the Irish tails were up and replacement prop Michael Milne burrowed over.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

During Thanksgiving week, from the soft neutral cocoon of my parents’ guest room, I burrowed into an impulsive rewatch of the BBC “Sherlock” — yes, the Benedict Cumberbatch era, all sculptural cheekbones and good outerwear.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

Finn burrowed his face harder against Mom’s side.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Scabies is caused by microscopic mites burrowing under the skin and it spreads through close skin contact.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Granted, the bar for Netflix movies has long since descended past Hell’s ninth circle, burrowing so low that it’s carved out a 10th reserved for the streamer’s original titles.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Scientists identified the first known record of the Mexican burrowing toad, Rhinophrynus, in the southwestern United States.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

No one knows, but all the flailing, hammering, digging and burrowing are for naught.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As if microscopic bugs had leapt from the box to his skin and were burrowing their way to his blood even as he stood there.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner




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