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That same year, he was featured alongside Kevin Bacon in the zippy horror comedy “Tremors,” using a lasso to fool a man-eating worm into swallowing a makeshift pipe bomb.
From Washington Post
Simeon stuck the paper worm into the MoonPie, making it a wick.
From Literature
But nothing about Hollywood is normal, and if you’ve been working there since you were a child, it’s bound to worm into you in ways that can prove hard to untangle.
From New York Times
Our favorite young adult fiction and fantasy books worm into our brains deeply and early – and many of them still teach readers and dreamers that aspirational power fantasy are by default the province of whiteness.
From Salon
In that case, the hackers inserted a self-propagating worm into a tax preparation software company’s updates to infect its customers.
From Washington Times
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