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scramble

[skram-buhl] / ˈskræm bəl /




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Oregon was mounting a response when Moore took off on a quarterback scramble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

On Wednesday Poland also said a Russian military helicopter briefly violated its airspace, forcing it to scramble fighter jets.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Vicki Hird, agriculture lead at the Wildlife Trusts said "the scramble for green farming schemes was worse than the dash for Oasis tickets".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The most recent scramble was triggered by drone attacks from Iraq earlier this month that shut the East-West pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Gene looks her way and the pressure on my chest lets off just enough for me to scramble away to the side.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

That’s because as LIV scrambles for cash since losing its Saudi funding, it desperately needs its marquee players like Rahm to stick around.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

While the rest of the country scrambles to make a living in a world upended by the digital revolution, its creators revel in lifestyles that make the giddy heights of Versailles appear quaint.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

French carmaker Renault said on Monday it was developing a ground-based drone for military and civilian use as Europe scrambles to boost weapons production in the face of Russian aggression.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

As Big Tech scrambles to build artificial intelligence, demand for compute has far exceeded supply.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026

Everyone scrambles to their seats, but I’m still lying on the imaginary train tracks.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Australia wing Joseph-Aukuso Sua'ali'i was then sin-binned as well to leave Australia three men down and replacement scrum-half Morne van den Berg scrambled in to cut the lead to 11 points.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

As he and two other crew members scrambled to grab onto debris and rafts, they realized that one of them was missing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

When it was announced that he would make a media statement reporters scrambled to hear what he had to say.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The U.K. has scrambled jets to deter Russian jet fighters spotted over Ireland’s west coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

He scrambled up on the trunk and stood, looking across what had been the trail.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

The refiners still in operation are racing to supply a market in dire need of diesel, which powers all manner of heavy-duty vehicles and machinery, while also scrambling to procure enough crude shipments to process.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Organizers were scrambling to find Gerwig but she had dashed off somewhere else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

The Federal Trade Commission has been cracking down on longtime car-dealer tactics like advertising prices that fail to disclose mandatory fees and add-ons, with dealers and third-party sites like Cars.com and Autotrader.com scrambling to comply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

It recently occurred to Jung that all the days that she spent scrambling to save the ginkgo were the most active she had been since she fell ill last winter.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The pixies had started throwing skeins of gold out the windows, and men and women were scrambling about to pick them up, but of course they couldn’t.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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