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However, new research shows they also took advantage of opportunities to scavenge.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

But at the one we visited in Holguín, portions had gotten smaller and less varied, and staff were forced to scavenge for wood to cook with, due to gas shortages and unreliable electricity.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026

The study's findings suggest the birds are doing more than just tracking the hunters: they're using navigation and spatial memory techniques to scavenge with sophistication.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

When they aren’t thieving, bald eagles also scavenge from roadkill or help themselves to free food found in human garbage or at the town landfill.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

There was nothing to do about the problem, so he gritted his teeth and felt his belly grind on emptiness and promised himself he would scavenge a feast when they arrived in the drowned city.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

That same pigment in your skin also naturally scavenges free radicals in response to damaging environmental pollution from industrial sources and automobile exhaust fumes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023

Oxygen scavenges methane, so there was a rapid disappearance of methane; Earth lost that early methane greenhouse effect.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2023

He scavenges trash cans for recyclables during the day and stops when the heat is too much, resting and sometimes sleeping under an oak tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

The local artist scavenges twigs and bark and reassembles the tree scraps into objects that resemble parts of actual trees.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

They are Vorticellæ; and every one of those bells, by the ciliary current on its rim, is scavenging the water - till a tadpole comes by and scavenges it. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

In the early 1980s, that included dumpster-diving at Kroger, where we scavenged perfectly good food—fresh mushrooms, wheels of cheese, pineapples—that we couldn’t afford to buy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

As the afternoon wore on, the family used rope scavenged from a neighbor’s courtyard to secure a tarp between two taller chunks of concrete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2025

Huge lorries dumping directly onto the ground amid a sea of waste, as birds scavenged.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

The LaPrele site in Converse County preserves the remains of a killed or scavenged sub-adult mammoth and an associated camp occupied during the time the animal was butchered almost 13,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

The shoe poet scavenged through abandoned luggage as we walked.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

He took on various jobs, from construction to scavenging for waste and selling things at a street stall, before becoming a food deliveryman.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Some irregular food items such as chicken and pig were also detected in the samples, suggesting that wolves are also scavenging from human waste disposal sites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

A video circulating on social media shows a man expelling a soldier and another official from his home after finding them scavenging around.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

The Trump Administration is scavenging for ideas to lower costs for home-buyers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Without a word they both hopped out and set to work, Joe scavenging bigger logs that burned well in his shop’s heater, Nancy gathering smaller branches that would fit easily into the kitchen stove.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols