scrounge
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While some landlords offer a short grace period for renters to scrounge together enough cash, fintech companies are offering a different deal: split your rent into installments throughout the month.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Presumably the gambit is to catch Mr. Powell for lying to Congress regarding the office renovations or scrounge for details in search of some other so far undetected offense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
“It shouldn’t be. You shouldn’t scrounge to save money to go somewhere and be told you’ll be put on a waiting list. That should not happen, but it does.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
"They occasionally did try and slip out up to the production office and see if they could scrounge some cooked chicken rather than having to cook it themselves," Huffam revealed.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
“I’ll walk to the edge of the village with you,” said Sirius, “see if I can scrounge another paper.”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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Broke and missing his passport but infused with a traveler’s spirit, Khalid scrounges for odd jobs — restaurant work, cleaning the marina, painting someone’s boat — to make enough money to fly back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
The revenue agency, as it scrounges for new recruits, could run into the type of problem the Border Patrol faced when it went on a spending and hiring spree 15 years ago.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
But tools can be misplaced, lost or destroyed, potentially leaving guns inoperable unless someone scrounges up a U.S.-supplied wrench.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
As fuel prices rose, he gave up cooking with gas and instead scrounges for firewood.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022
Ratty scrounges a prime rope fra' somewheers, an' we creeps out after nightfall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various
The group came together at Sedalia, Mo., high school, scrounged up money and bought a caboose from a local salvage yard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
He scrounged together stopgap university funding and outside donations to keep the operation running “on fumes,” vowing “to go down swinging.”
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025
The men ran out of food, subsisting on what they scrounged up: vitamins pills and pancake mix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
In Jabaliya, a refugee camp near Gaza City, families scrounged for mallow leaves to make a thin broth to break the daily Ramadan fast.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
After we'd harvested those, we scrounged along inside the fence for probably a mile until we'd filled the bucket with the dandelion greens, stems, and flowers.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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In Tawila, hundreds of people have huddled together in makeshift tents in a vast desert expanse, scrounging together what they can to prepare food for their families, AFP video shows.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
Macron’s government is currently scrounging for tens-of-billions in cost savings as it tries to rein in the government’s budget deficit, which reached 5.8% of economic output last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
His insatiable appetite for dominance of both government and industry will always leave him scrounging for more.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025
Who is the woman we meet at the beginning of “Drift,” the homeless, scrounging figure you play?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
Adam was trying to arrange the letter’s information in his mind, and it was as restless as a setting hen scrounging into the nest.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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