- present participle of scrape.
scraping
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Nearby, after scraping away a thin layer of earth, smoke begins to rise.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Since these systems can’t access private accounts or sites that block scraping, does that make private accounts meaningfully safer?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
She broke into a full sob then, and Moss stood and dragged his chair with him, the sound of it scraping the stage loud and obnoxious, but he didn’t care.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
The samples gathered in 1984 included locks of Mary's hair and nail scrapings.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
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 pile of leaves and stalks that could be chopped up and mixed with the scrapings from a chicken coop and some old, spent coffee grounds.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
From their many fallings and scrapings, already they know the chant of sana, sana.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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