scraping
Example Sentences
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A Pulitzer Prize winner for “Between Riverside and Crazy,” he writes punchy dialogue and specializes in characters scraping by on the margins of New York life.
Her voice sounded as if it were scraping its way out of her chest.
From Literature
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Finds included bone pegs for stretching vellum as it dried, and tools such as knives and pumice stones for scraping and smoothing animal hides.
From BBC
AI has allowed the outlets to cover counties in Ohio that otherwise might go ignored by scraping information from local websites and sending “tips” to reporters, he said.
Google - like other tech firms - has built its AI Gemini by scraping all their work for free.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.