worm
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We’ve all experienced the tendency of AI chatbots to tell us what we want to hear, but there are two other, more nuanced factors that help chatbots worm their way into human hearts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
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
So that was another thing that worms didn't do and another problem that a pet worm wouldn't be.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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
Well, you’re opening up a whole can of worms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Or a can of worms best left unopened?
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
“It’s taken us 50 years to get rid of all our worms and it’s going to take us quite a few years to get them all back again,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
“Worms, all worms, you old mouseworm! Stay ’way, Warbeak killee!”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The country erupted in late-night protests, and just enough legislators to form a quorum wormed their way through tanks and law enforcement to vote unanimously to end the martial law.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2024
They wormed their way into his life, acting as his caregivers and new best friends and lived with Sawusch from September 2017 until his death in May 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024
"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
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
I might as well have just been born, or just wormed through a Lazarus Door—one atom at a time.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
A clown fish embryo maturing; a parasite worming its way into a cell; tiny mites clustered around the bases of your eyelashes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
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
But Bossie has been slowly but surely worming his back into the fold ever since.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2022
We can recognize the ridiculousness of folk tales, by they have a way of worming into our national narrative infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
The thought of Scout worming his way through my hole in my fence and finding my ball makes me nuts.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
