scavenge

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

Cougars, however, rarely scavenge from other carnivores and are skilled hunters on their own, leaving scientists uncertain about what truly shapes their interactions with wolves.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 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

Sloth’s scavenge features peered through the duct hole, an LED smear on her forehead.

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

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

Munyoki’s mother, Martha Waringa, a 35-year-old single parent who also scavenges, says her son’s wages will help pay his seven siblings’ school fees when classes resume.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

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

Mothers feed babies with scraps scavenged from trash cans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

Specialized occupational therapy tools at the clinic were replaced by scavenged substitutes: buttons, small glasses, pieces of wood or pipe now help patients relearn activities of daily living.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 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

I set my cigar box full of Jemma’s old correspondences on the bench beside me, and I opened a few newspapers scavenged from the depot.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Maintaining their own body heat would have helped T. rex remain active while hunting or scavenging enough food to support such a metabolism, Eagle said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 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

The first dogs were descendants of grey wolves that lingered around human camps at the end of the Ice Age, scavenging leftovers and slowly becoming tamer.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Pima snorted laughter and jabbed an elbow into his ribs, but even she didn’t suggest scavenging them.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi