scavenge

The study's findings suggest the birds are doing more than just tracking the hunters: they're using navigation and spatial memory techniques to scavenge with sophistication.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

Cougars, however, rarely scavenge from other carnivores and are skilled hunters on their own, leaving scientists uncertain about what truly shapes their interactions with wolves.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026

When they aren’t thieving, bald eagles also scavenge from roadkill or help themselves to free food found in human garbage or at the town landfill.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

"You'll be able to get yourself a job and make money for yourself. Then you won't have to hustle and scavenge around here any more."

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025

Her words still lingered in his mind: “I’ll get twenty times the scavenge he does. ”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

That same pigment in your skin also naturally scavenges free radicals in response to damaging environmental pollution from industrial sources and automobile exhaust fumes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023

Oxygen scavenges methane, so there was a rapid disappearance of methane; Earth lost that early methane greenhouse effect.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2023

The local artist scavenges twigs and bark and reassembles the tree scraps into objects that resemble parts of actual trees.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

Munyoki’s mother, Martha Waringa, a 35-year-old single parent who also scavenges, says her son’s wages will help pay his seven siblings’ school fees when classes resume.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

They are Vorticellæ; and every one of those bells, by the ciliary current on its rim, is scavenging the water - till a tadpole comes by and scavenges it. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles

In the early 1980s, that included dumpster-diving at Kroger, where we scavenged perfectly good food—fresh mushrooms, wheels of cheese, pineapples—that we couldn’t afford to buy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Under the floorboards of her closet, Smith conceals “glittering refuse I had scavenged from trash bins, fragments of costume jewelry, rosary beads,” along with a blue toothbrush she’s invested with magical powers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

A Wyoming archaeological site where people killed or scavenged a Columbian mammoth nearly 13,000 years ago has produced yet another discovery that sheds light on the life of these early inhabitants of North America.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

Cynthia “Cyn” Carranza meticulously scavenged for a shady parking spot in the car she called home.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024

Cold and gray and heavy in the scavenged bowl of the countryside.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Both injuries were potentially sustained during scavenging or during a battle with other dinosaurs.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Some irregular food items such as chicken and pig were also detected in the samples, suggesting that wolves are also scavenging from human waste disposal sites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Hunting almost certainly began in East Africa, with our ancient ancestors scavenging the kills of other predators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

In drought-hit northeastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

A few robins, starlings, and blackbirds were still scavenging.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols