scramble
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“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Swang also hosted a tournament in L.A. called Spicoli’s Scramble — in honor of Oyewole’s late best friend — and raised $20,000 for the Grammy Museum and Recording Academy’s Quinn Coleman scholarship.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
Scramble for basics: 'We've queued for gas for three days'
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2023
“We don’t see this as reaching our goal but just a start,” said Assistant Manager Yoshimasa Kitano at Tokyu’s headquarters, a few minutes’ walk from the Scramble Crossing.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2022
Scramble till set, and serve heaped up on hot buttered toast.
From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mill, Mrs. (Jean Oliver)
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