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scrape

[skreyp] / skreɪp /






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In addition to partnering with some AI companies, Thomson said News Corp will continue to “pursue pilferers” that scrape its content illegally.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

I considered whipping the miso into cold butter, making a compound butter to scrape over oven-hot sourdough before adding tomato slices and crystalline hunks of salt.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

And even if he manages to scrape by in committee, Blanche can afford to lose only three Republican votes in the Senate.

From Slate Jul. 9, 2026

Would a win over Haiti followed by two defeats be acclaimed as a riotous success if it's enough to scrape into the knockouts as one of the best third-placed teams?

From BBC Jun. 21, 2026

So instead, my parents tried to scrape together every penny to pay for my sister's college in full.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Hidden in the scrapes, this little tern chick is camouflaged - and vulnerable - on a Norfolk beach.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Instead of using soap or chemicals, it physically scrapes away dirt and marks from surfaces.

From Science Daily Apr. 18, 2026

“The water comes out in very fast movements, with a high velocity, and it scrapes away all these materials” from the valley, said Sattar, creating a “hyper-concentrated” flood that is savage in its power.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 2026

How can they keep a low enough profile so that the authorities won’t be summoned when her brother Junior is getting into scrapes at school?

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2026

Lee Lee scrapes the bowl and eats the last morsels of melted ice cream.

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

Twitch's chief product officer Mike Minton previously said he did not know if users' data had been scraped for training before it gave people the opportunity to opt-out.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Kimberella moved with the help of a muscular foot and scraped food from the seafloor.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

They point out that “solar farm” is a misnomer because the land — an alluvial plane with Yucca colonies dating back hundreds of years, creosote rhizomatic rings even longer — will be scraped and fenced.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Quadir scraped together $6 million and plowed a chunk of it into a wager against Wirecard.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The water became shallow—the boat scraped on stone—and she despaired of escaping.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Kim Sun-hee, 70, described them as "like scraping cement, or even ghost-like noises. It was really frightening".

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

Rank-and-file in the UK-based Netball Super League are scraping into five figures and often working second jobs, although full-time marquee players fare much better.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Last week, the government’s own energy statisticians published an explainer on the term, because, at one of America’s most important oil hubs, prices now suggest the tanks may already be scraping bottom.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Jayzus, one wants to say, stop scraping that fiddle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

A horrible rasping noise told them Marco’s fancy cart was scraping along the wall of rock and one of its wheels was wobbling unsteadily.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook




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