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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

Or was it a food stall dishing out free grub?

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

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

Yvonne teased, “Lolly got all that grub in his hands and ain’t hungry?”

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

But there’s a worse problem: grubs, the larvae of flies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Richard Gray, the head of the biodiversity and wildlife Branch at the NIEA, said the "aggressive predator" can have nests with "up to 8,000 individual hornets or grubs".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

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 few days later, workers for a lawn-care company let themselves into our backyard to treat it for grubs.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

Then he pawed it apart and sniffed among the broken pieces, eating up the fat white grubs.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Analysts expect a harvest of 11m-12m tonnes, one of the smallest in a generation, after many farmers grubbed up their failing, waterlogged crops and replanted fields with barley.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2013

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

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

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

"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 mother did, certainly, to see those philosophers grubbing as they did before her in the dirt. 03-01 clapped, and smoked his pipe.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson