- present participle of scrape.
scraping
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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
Mecham hopes to catch those who are tired of scraping by and want some security.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Jayzus, one wants to say, stop scraping that fiddle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
I mean, people have been scraping the whole web since the first search engine.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
I slice the rest of the bread with a scraping of butter for the children and call the women to the kitchen.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
And that’s why he has sought DNA testing of physical evidence recovered from the scene—fingernail scrapings, bloodstains, and hair—that could show that someone else committed the killing.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025
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
They made it by scraping the seeds which others had collected, chewing up the scrapings till they made a kind of paste or soup, and then swallowing it into their own crops.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
