scab
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“These people believe that you take the scab off of a wound and take it off again and again until something miraculous happens,” Boritt grumbles to the camera.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Apples are also among the most heavily treated fruits, with pesticides used in particular to fight apple scab, the main fungal threat to orchards.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
"Unseasonal rainfall in April-May led to scab affecting the crop," says Abdula Gaffar Qazi, 50. "Even when some farmers sprayed pesticides, the rain washed it away."
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023
Federal labor law allows employers to hire replacement workers during unfair labor practice strikes and economic strikes, but unions typically condemn the use of so-called scab labor.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2023
The nurses had told me not to, but I couldn’t resist pulling on them real slow to see how big a scab I could get loose.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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