scoop
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That will help you realize things like this faucet doesn’t get hot water or I forgot to put an ice cream scoop in the kitchen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
You might try to scoop up a bargain or avoid certain headaches by purchasing a newly constructed house.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Still, people seem to be rushing to scoop these preorders up, despite the insistence by some that preorders should be avoided given the disastrous launches of games like “Cyberpunk 2077” and “No Man’s Sky.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
He used the scoop and reverse scoop early and effectively against Prasidh Krishna, then pounced when he had knocked the India seamers off their lengths, smashing Arshdeep Singh over mid-wicket for six.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Baba tears off a piece of naan that he uses to scoop up some daal.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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Once they’ve reached their capacity of about 20,000 pounds, a boat hauls everything to the harbor and a crane scoops it out in nets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Even the co-conspirators marveled at how good their informant was at getting M&A scoops, according to the indictment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Similar activity allegedly preceded subsequent Axios scoops on April 17 and May 1.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
As TV producers jockeyed for scoops and access, prosecutors in the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, in Fort Worth, were faced with another task.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
I managed a drumstick and a couple scoops of mashed potatoes and coleslaw and then excused myself.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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Microsoft has steadily scooped up specialized, midsized cyber companies over the past decade, while Google made the largest acquisition in its history by purchasing AI cloud and security platform Wiz earlier this year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Sherwin-Williams SHW 3.07%increase; up pointing triangle raised its outlook for the year after logging higher profit and sales in the second quarter, as the company scooped up market share and raised prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
As the monsoon monsoons, our lights and cameras are hastily scooped up and moved into the beautiful Victorian kitchen of nearby Kenwood House.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Crews stunned the fish with electricity, scooped them up in buckets, trucked them to a hatchery and ultimately moved them to Arroyo Hondo Creek in Santa Barbara County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
He scooped the ball up with one swipe of his lucky mitt and ran back to first base, but it was too late.
From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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She remembers scooping up what remained of her artwork and watching it sift through her fingers, the porcelain broken and changed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
In recent weeks though the ocean around Okinawa has been mercifully cooled by typhoons scooping up deep-sea water as they tear across the Pacific.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Videos from the response on Saturday show helicopters scooping up large quantities of water before dropping it on affected areas.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Now it doesn’t really have any exclusive or defining titles, yet Microsoft spent billions scooping up IPs with nothing to show for it.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
It’s about changing direction,’ she says, ‘balancing on two feet or one, being focused, scooping up your token, no matter what.’
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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