scrabble
Example Sentences
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Lee wanted wealth and stability, not to scrabble around in obscurity hoping to beat impossibly long odds.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2024
One visitor quipped "someone's been playing scrabble by the look of it".
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2024
“Imagine you have scrabble tiles that spell out ‘Powerball.’
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023
Like my parents and many others I knew in the South Bronx, they scrabble to hang on and perhaps wonder if anyone sees or hears their distress.
From Salon • Jul. 9, 2023
The heroism and glamour might be there somewhere, but you had to dig and scrape and scrabble through the dirt, pain, and misery to find it.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.