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scrape

verb as in scratch, remove outer layer

verb as in be very frugal

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Big food companies like General Mills and Conagra say economic pressures have more people cooking from scratch, and scraping their plates into Tupperware containers.

The removal of the two-child benefit limit will mean no longer "scraping the barrel every month" to afford bills and food, a mother-of-three has said.

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In Ian McEwan’s “What We Can Know,” war, sea-level rise and other upheavals have left humanity scraping by and unsure of itself.

The win completed a fairytale postseason campaign for Gotham, who only scraped into the playoffs as the eighth seeds while Washington had been ranked second.

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I used blood orange and lemon, scraping their zest and squeezing their juice into the batter, which is enriched with more than a half-cup of olive oil.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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