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
So you can just scrape the data yourself and feed it to an AI agent yourself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
I heard a scuffling noise, a click and scrape of metal, and in a matter of seconds I saw his door swing open.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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That has complemented a social-media listening tool that scrapes the internet for yet more trends, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 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
Meyer helped design a tracking system that scrapes data from Zillow to detect price hikes greater than 10%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Compared to the cuts and scrapes on the rest of her, it wasn’t a big deal.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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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
In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, her characters scraped together jobs to support passion projects that were overwrought and beyond their grasp.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
“But we’ve barely scraped the surface in terms of understanding.”
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Katie: If it’s AI citations they’re after, they should start posting more on YouTube, which is, unsurprisingly, heavily scraped by Google’s AI model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
As the icebergs calve from the glaciers on the continent, they bring with them mineral deposits scraped up from the ground, and release these nutrients into the water.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Recent developments—like court documents unsealed Thursday revealing AI staff knew scraping news websites to train their models could harm publications—are only adding to that unease.
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
Many creators oppose AI because it could replace humans and was built using the unauthorized scraping of creative works used to train generative AI video and image models.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
Kids were dropping books onto the floor, scraping desk chairs back, but I couldn’t figure where this feeling was coming from.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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