scrabble
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A group of people scrabble on the ground, sifting through the soil.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
It might not be up to John Cena standards, but she’s clearly figured at least a few things out along her scrabble to undeniable stardom.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
“Imagine you have scrabble tiles that spell out ‘Powerball.’
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
The words recession and Europe, made from letters of a scrabble game, are seen in this illustration picture taken in Ljubljana, November 15, 2012.
From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2022
I heard Mama scrabble around in the kitchen for a bit, and then she came out with a mound of folded tinfoil that she handed over to Susie.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
He scrabbles over a few yards to try again.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
She scrabbles to find her reason for being.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023
But in one instance, a dog uses Halle Berry’s back as a springboard, then scrabbles up the wall to the second story and attacks a gunman on a balcony.
From Slate ● May 16, 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
She scrabbles across the floor and leaps onto Walter, licking his face and wagging so hard she topples backward.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
In the second half, Roper hit the ball into the bottom-right corner on the run, before he scrabbled to get the ball across the line to put England 5-3 up.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022
Patients scrabbled for whatever dignity they could salvage during their terrifying tour through the dark forest of tubes, needles and knives.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
A dog’s scrabbled paw prints, a bobcat at best.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018
A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Europe’s scrabbling together of funds to put into the pot is important here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
Bombaa also complains about how ordinary Nairobians, often scrabbling to make a living, have to pay to enter some of their city’s most beautiful locations such as the arboretum or Karura forest.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
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
Clare clawed at the passing trees, scrabbling for something—anything— to break his momentum.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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