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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Google - like other tech firms - has built its AI Gemini by scraping all their work for free.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
“It’s another version of scraping, which has been a problem since day one,” Caen said, referencing how Anthropic’s Claude and other LLMs have been trained on large amounts of copyrighted material from across the internet.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026
On average, scraping behavior appeared after just 82 minutes.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
I was in the bathroom scraping a quick razor over my face when Judy Poovey came in and rushed over so fast I cut my cheek.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
