scraping

Nearby, after scraping away a thin layer of earth, smoke begins to rise.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

"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

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

Over the next two months, the match’s momentum ebbed and flowed, but from the ninth game on, Bobby, scraping his way back, took the lead and held on to it.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

More problems were found at a factory that Sun had acquired in Detroit, where the diabetes drug metformin was contaminated with metal scrapings.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025

Despite aggressive debridement — daily surgical scrapings of her wounds to clean out the infection — and expensive medications, the tissues in her leg grayed at the edges.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

But at our earliest opportunity, humans also sought to profit from these substances: scrapings from a Neandertal's teeth show traces of toxins that held medicinal value, including the bases for aspirin and penicillin.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023

A fish and chip shop owner is set to serve up his last scrapings more than 60 years after the business opened its doors.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023

Loud bangings and scrapings were coming from behind the Dursleys’ boarded-up fireplace, which had a fake coal fire plugged in front of it.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling