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shrews

noun

plural of shrew

as in furies

a bad-tempered scolding woman Rip Van Winkle went off into the mountains to escape his wife, a shrew who made his life miserable

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Recent Examples of shrews These are important tools used for both feeding and building their dens and digging for other menu items such as mice, gophers, voles and shrews. — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026 The tiny bodies of weasels, shrews and bats burn energy so fast that skipping even one meal can mean starvation. — Leonie Baier, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2026 In animal studies, TDN helped obese mice and musk shrews lose weight and become more responsive to insulin. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025

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None could tame its political furies; its covert operations, which killed more than a thousand Americans in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan; or its expansion, through the creation of like-minded extremist movements, across the Middle East.

— Robin Wright, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
Just as players once had to fight the three furies in later runs of Hades, the Oceanus boss fight requires Melinoë to fight a trio of sirens — each with their own move set, weapons, and health — in order to move forward.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2025

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Some critics attacked it as tone-deaf, given the war in Iran and the attendant, spiralling gas prices.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026
The critics’ jury consisted of journalist and doc filmmaker Flavia Guerra, journalist and professor Pâmela Eurídice, doc filmmaker and critic Rafael Valles, journalist and director Simone Zuccolotto and researcher and critic Victor Souza.

— Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 23 Aug. 2026

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And because harpies rely on large emergent trees for nesting and an extensive, continuous canopy for hunting, even partial deforestation will severely disrupt their ability to breed and forage.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
In the right-wing imagination, these women are acting like harpies — an epithet often seen online — when they’re supposed to be helpmeets.

— Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026

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