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Recent Examples of grovel
But the argument that the US has often leveled — that China is a predatory actor on the world stage, using trade and investment to bend countries to its will — has become harder to make in a world where the president of the United States is bragging about the countries coming to grovel before him.
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Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
It is predicated on fealty to the Big Lie, familial ties and a self-deprecating willingness to grovel before indecency.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2024
One moment involves Dickinson smashing up china and making Romy grovel on the floor to pick up the pieces.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Dec. 2024
On the first platform, Seychelle sets the tone beautifully by forcing C.K. to grovel, agreeing to help her, then doing nothing anyway.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
It is predicated on fealty to the Big Lie, familial ties and a self-deprecating willingness to grovel before indecency.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2024
One moment involves Dickinson smashing up china and making Romy grovel on the floor to pick up the pieces.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Dec. 2024
On the first platform, Seychelle sets the tone beautifully by forcing C.K. to grovel, agreeing to help her, then doing nothing anyway.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grovel
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The mullet was all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s, and many people who had that hairstyle often cringe, laugh or both when looking at pictures of themselves from those days.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2025
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That clip, featuring Jennifer rapping along without missing a beat while her daughter cringes, drew another 1 million views and more than 50,200 likes.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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The woman crawled to her bathroom and pulled the emergency cord, then the facility staff called 911, deputies said.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Sun Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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Here, 15 of the softest sheets that will convince you that crawling into bed at 9 p.m. is equivalent to self-care.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
16 May 2025
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When Afrikaner apartheid was instituted in 1948, Washington didn’t flinch.—
Time,
Time,
22 May 2025
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Case in point: Deja’s partner Abby doesn’t flinch when Deja proposes shaving her eyebrows.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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For years, the Birch Glacier has been creeping down the mountainside, pressured by shifting debris near the summit.—
Dave Graham,
Christian Science Monitor,
29 May 2025
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Despite this, his ownership didn’t creep over the 10 per cent mark until the period around Newcastle’s Double Gameweek 32, with his brace against Leicester City in Gameweek 31 a particular highlight for my season, providing my biggest rank jump of the run-in.—
Holly Shand,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Babbitt and several other rioters sought to break through the barricaded House chamber where lawmakers from both parties cowered in fear for their lives when Byrd shot her.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
19 May 2025
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The Hall might have had the independent spine to do this without MLB’s blessing, but cowered and did not.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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Fallen power lines snaked across the road and through the ditch.—
Miceala Morano,
Arkansas Online,
20 May 2025
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In Castelvetro that night, the lines for the bars snaked through the throng of dancers in the main square.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
10 May 2025
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Bitcoin touched a record high above $111,000, and oil prices slid after Bloomberg said oil producing member countries, or OPEC+, are discussing a potential third consecutive oil production surge in July, with an output hike of 411,000 barrels a day among the options under consideration.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Classrooms feature an expanse of windows and sliding glass doors.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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As the players are asked questions like who among them is the biggest snake slithering under the radar, Dylan recognizes that this mission is a great opportunity to study how people answer as a way to gauge who might be a Traitor.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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But Brunson slithered back with venom: 34 points on 12-of-18 shooting in a decisive victory.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2025
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“Grovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grovel. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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