scramble
Example Sentences
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In one spectacular sequence in the Sugar Bowl against Georgia, Chambliss scrambled away from a pass rush and flipped a wobbling backhand pass, basketball-style, down the sideline for a key completion.
“It was like ‘The Hunger Games,’” said Laurel Cormie, who along with her daughter Eden scrambled to find a way home from Aruba after their flight was canceled on Saturday.
For countries in the region, the new policy will set off a scramble to adjust.
Amid the online firestorm, Grok sought to assure users on Friday that it was scrambling to fix flaws in the tool.
From Barron's
The restrictions prompted a scramble among airlines to cancel flights slated to pass near Puerto Rico and Caribbean territories.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.