scrape
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At least 165 of the ships were bottom trawlers, a particularly destructive form of fishing that uses weighted nets that scrape the ocean floor, destroying virtually everything in their path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
State Street uses artificial intelligence to help scrape consumer prices from online sources, providing more frequent and recent looks at inflation data than measurements from the government, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
“It’s not someone sitting there researching people, they’re using AI to scrape social-media accounts and publicly available images.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Some thicker icebergs that break from tidewater glaciers without floating ice shelf extensions can scrape along the seabed or become grounded inside a fjord.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
But a tumble, a scrape, a small cut or burn—Clare barely felt at all.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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"As a stand-alone piece of theatre, The Mad King scrapes through," he wrote.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Instead of using soap or chemicals, it physically scrapes away dirt and marks from surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2026
Simmons praised DoorDash for offering her the “flexibility” that allows her to take care of her sick husband and family as she scrapes for “every extra dollar.”
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
Providers applied skin substitutes to minor scrapes and bruises—at an average cost of $121,501 per patient and $230,103 for those treated at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The ground was covered with pebbles; her arms hurt when she leaned on them and her legs, dragging behind, got more scrapes.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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Promoters scraped out regional fiefdoms where transient performers would fight for a spell before jumping ship in search of better deals.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
By that point, USC’s offense had piled up almost 200 yards, while Louisiana had scraped together just 18.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The tool includes a database of over 70 billion images, many of which were scraped from public internet sources including social media.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“But we’ve barely scraped the surface in terms of understanding.”
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
My parka had to be turned inside out so all the sweat from the day could freeze and be scraped off in the morning.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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"He seemed to be living a luxurious lifestyle when other people are scrimping and scraping along," one NOS member told the court.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Search engines and AI rely on web scraping and frequency of mentions, and the sheer volume of his fake posts caused AI to mistakenly identify him as an NFL wide receiver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Top staff at OpenAI and Microsoft knew that scraping news websites to train their artificial intelligence models may eventually damage or even destroy those publications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Quinta Brunson’s scraping schoolteacher Janine Teagues in “Abbott Elementary” hopes to grow into the roles modeled by classroom veterans before rent and bills push her out of the profession.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
My mom stands up, scraping her chair back, and walks out of the room to the hallway, where I can still see her standing.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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