scramble
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The scramble for funding underscores how the AI craze has shifted to a phase where capital is more constrained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
In contrast to the gorgeous monochrome visuals, this is a land that stinks of complicity and delusion — of opportunists desperate to scramble onto the right side of history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble?
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The scramble for safety was attributed to a confluence of factors suddenly plaguing the market all at once.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
By the time I scramble to my feet, she’s disappeared around the corner.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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It has “the ability to do a cyberattack that scrambles all the bank accounts, shuts down the electric grid—that exists today, and we know that’s the case.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In the first episode, student Daisy scrambles at rush hour to catch a jeepney, the country's most common form of public transport.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
While the rest of the country scrambles to make a living in a world upended by the digital revolution, its creators revel in lifestyles that make the giddy heights of Versailles appear quaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
As Big Tech scrambles to build artificial intelligence, demand for compute has far exceeded supply.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
He scrambles to his feet while I get to mine.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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The exchange scrambled to urge cryptocurrency issuers to freeze affected assets.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
We switchbacked up steep sandy pitches, scrambled over sections of class 3 granite, and reached the peak in the early afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Domestic airlines have scrambled to find alternative routes for the capital's seven million residents, with recent targeted advertisements highlighting flights from Qassim airport three hours from Riyadh.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Faculty members at a number of institutions told MarketWatch that their computer-science departments scrambled to hire faculty when interest in the major peaked around 2023, and now the departments have a surplus of instructors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
In 1944, a strong coastal storm uncovered the missing tombstones under a highway, and these boys scrambled up to see.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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"When we receive the product, everyone is scrambling to get it," said Dyton Ganiza, operations manager at the Best Oil retailer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Nicholas G. Miller reports on the buyers scrambling to pay down principal or trim household expenses to survive the spike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Exceptionally high tides are set to hit California as early this weekend, sending officials scrambling to prepare for another onslaught along the state’s already battered coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Annual increases in compensation jumped to as high as 5% in 2022 — almost double the prepandemic trend — when companies were scrambling to hire people at a time of acute labor shortages.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Shouldn’t I have been jumping for joy, scrambling down the tree, diving into the water, and swimming back to my own kind to be rescued and taken back to… civilization?
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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