- present participle of scramble.
scrambling
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In the days leading up to her resignation as U.S. ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle was scrambling to save her job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
He continued: "With its traditional covert footprint eviscerated by almost 1,000 expulsions since the invasion, the Kremlin's global toolkit is weak. So we see them scrambling to pay criminals to do their bidding."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Executives and AI companies have called for a slowdown in the technology’s development, and policymakers have been scrambling to add more guardrails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Slate’s Nitish Pahwa talked to psychologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle about how “modern technology is scrambling our ability to live in the real world”—and what we can do about it.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
The man turned, scrambling to the left, then right, his mouth suddenly open with fear, but she had the agility of a child and the nerves of all eternity.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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