scrape
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I considered whipping the miso into cold butter, making a compound butter to scrape over oven-hot sourdough before adding tomato slices and crystalline hunks of salt.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Instead, these would-be business owners scrape together financing on a deal-by-deal basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
And even if he manages to scrape by in committee, Blanche can afford to lose only three Republican votes in the Senate.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2026
Would a win over Haiti followed by two defeats be acclaimed as a riotous success if it's enough to scrape into the knockouts as one of the best third-placed teams?
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Then Nat heard the scrape of a chair and the thud of a log being pitched on the fire.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Instead of using soap or chemicals, it physically scrapes away dirt and marks from surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 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
How can they keep a low enough profile so that the authorities won’t be summoned when her brother Junior is getting into scrapes at school?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Across two hours, Buckley’s Bride shoots, kicks, contorts, dances, scrapes, whizzes, licks and screams, all the while coming no closer to her true self than she was at the start of the film.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
“New scrapes get noticed; and digging can be heard a surprisingly long way, ye know.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
“But we’ve barely scraped the surface in terms of understanding.”
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Twitch's chief product officer Mike Minton previously said he did not know if users' data had been scraped for training before it gave people the opportunity to opt-out.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Kimberella moved with the help of a muscular foot and scraped food from the seafloor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Flod scraped together tomato cages, chicken wire, paper, glue and pink house paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Though the thorns had scraped her wings, they were leathery and too tough to be easily pierced.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
Kim Sun-hee, 70, described them as "like scraping cement, or even ghost-like noises. It was really frightening".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
"It takes weeks and weeks of bumping into things, scraping along the side of things, before you can work out the best way to steer it."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Last week, the government’s own energy statisticians published an explainer on the term, because, at one of America’s most important oil hubs, prices now suggest the tanks may already be scraping bottom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
And this time, salvaging draws and scraping a point isn’t an option.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
I lunge forward, scraping my paws and back on the rocks, and snap my jowls at his hairless tail.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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