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scoop

[skoop] / skup /
NOUN
utensil, tool for shovelling
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NOUN
previously secret information that is suddenly public
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We finished with vanilla ice cream, fragrant olive oil and a generous scoop of caviar.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

South-westerly winds will scoop up more warm, humid air from Europe and it's likely to feel hot again in the best of the sunshine for England and Wales.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

If that happens, MarketWatch readers will be able to scoop up the stock at bargain levels.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Investors who scoop up shares before a company’s IPO face lockup rules and can’t sell for a period of time, often several months.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

I scraped up most of it with my fingers into a little scoop Doc had given me and poured about a teaspoonful into each jar of oil in front of me.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

They hover with a calculated theatricality: “Hat Rack” drops like a predatory spider; the shovels’ metal scoops are poised like guillotine blades; and “Bottle Rack” dives like a missile—an apt metaphor for their impact.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Once they’ve reached their capacity of about 20,000 pounds, a boat hauls everything to the harbor and a crane scoops it out in nets.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Similar activity allegedly preceded subsequent Axios scoops on April 17 and May 1.

From Salon May 9, 2026

As TV producers jockeyed for scoops and access, prosecutors in the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, in Fort Worth, were faced with another task.

From Slate Apr. 6, 2026

Malik scoops up a rolling ball and underhands it at me, but it sails by.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

It has already scooped up eight awards in the Emmy pre-gala ceremonies, at which the vast majority of the more than 100 statuettes were handed out last weekend by the Television Academy.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

This week, some supermarkets in Tehran temporarily ran out of cooking oil and rice as shoppers scooped them for hoarding, residents said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Manure from cattle, pigs and poultry is scooped from heaps in the fields and carefully weighed to be spread evenly.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Microsoft has steadily scooped up specialized, midsized cyber companies over the past decade, while Google made the largest acquisition in its history by purchasing AI cloud and security platform Wiz earlier this year.

From MarketWatch Aug. 2, 2026

George bent down and scooped up a handful of snow.

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

The rural-leaning, pizza-selling convenience-store giant is eating Domino’s lunch and scooping up rival chains.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

The push into advertising began as OpenAI rival Anthropic started gaining ground, scooping up enterprise customers and launching new models that delivered strong performance.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

She remembers scooping up what remained of her artwork and watching it sift through her fingers, the porcelain broken and changed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

In recent weeks though the ocean around Okinawa has been mercifully cooled by typhoons scooping up deep-sea water as they tear across the Pacific.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

The monster bellowed in frustration and started after them, its paddle feet scooping through the water with such power that it actually started to gain on them.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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