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# How to pronounce "clawed away" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/klæwɛdɪwɪ/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **cla·we·da·way**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (3 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "clawed away" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "being racked by problems of one sort or another ever since the Opium Wars of the 1840s westerners the British of course me notoriously among them had clawed away um a Chinese territory so we had Hong Kong we had all the treaty ports um up and down the Yi the French had hyan in the South the Germans had the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 28:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqvi7AxqfcM&t=1691s)

### Example 2
> "there were a lot of trees Gardens and uh it was whole a green place the spot kl's family lived in for Generations clawed away into the valley in minutes she's still traumatized by what happened uh people were running out of your their home some people are taking out stuff from their home they were trying"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCG-png6jvU&t=72s)

### Example 3
> "We sort of think of it as, there's this automatic 2% a year. No, every bit of that 2% was just scratched and clawed away by difficult process. And part of the wonderful thing that happened in the US economy from the 1950s until the 2000s was education."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 24:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WZvNVdbYOE&t=1492s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [clawed](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clawed), [away](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/away)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "clawed away" correctly?
"clawed away" is pronounced `/klæwɛdɪwɪ/`. Syllable breakdown: **cla·we·da·way**.

### What does "clawed away" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "clawed away" in daily English.

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