scrabble
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A group of people scrabble on the ground, sifting through the soil.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
Lee wanted wealth and stability, not to scrabble around in obscurity hoping to beat impossibly long odds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
The policy spurs a scrabble for more hard currency.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
“Imagine you have scrabble tiles that spell out ‘Powerball.’
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
Pittsburgh was a city that had once sparked a rebellion, a place where one had to scrabble and scrape and fight for a chance at prosperity.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
After the game, City manager Pep Guardiola admitted he is still trying to find "balance" in his squad while talismanic striker Erling Haaland scrabbles for form.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
At the novel’s outset, Ezra scrabbles through his world with honest hunger and understandable, if sometimes pedantic, disdain for those with more than him.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
So Pluto is doubly fitting for the doppelgänger who ascended from underground and scrabbles around on all fours.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2019
As his wife scrabbles with angry protesters and gripes about her compromised marriage, he is sequestered in the bathroom, represented only by a mordant song that his aide-de-camp sings on his behalf:
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
“Someone who scrabbles her way through life. There’s no beauty in such labor.”
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
As she scrabbled for a laser pointer in her large handbag, her coloratura was comically on point, though she was inaudible in her middle range during the cabaletta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
Swiss lawmakers have since scrabbled together six counterproposals.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Her rivals cantered on as she scrabbled on the floor.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2022
A dog’s scrabbled paw prints, a bobcat at best.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018
Noa hit the floor and scrabbled for Jule’s ankle with her left hand while she reached toward her pant leg with the right.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Europe’s scrabbling together of funds to put into the pot is important here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
And, with the security of Europe under greater strain than at any time almost in living memory, can its leaders, who are currently scrabbling around, find an adequate response?
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
This is, though, where much of Europe has been for some time: scrabbling around for scraps from the Premier League’s table.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
When few other animals are out and about, wolverines are scrabbling up frozen slopes with their crampon-like claws and crunching through frozen bones of carrion dug out of snow.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
The Old Bear lifted a hand to the wind, and raven landed on his forearm, claws scrabbling against his black ringmail.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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