scavenger hunt
noun
: a game in which players try to acquire without buying specified items within a time limit
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The protagonist meets Charlie, a girl who asks her to pretend to be her girlfriend and becomes her aid in finishing a scavenger hunt that her mother left behind.
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Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Anderson also attends reading clubs, encourages students to read more and organizes scavenger hunts and other fun activities around the books, Johnson said.
—Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Fittingly, his scavenger hunt doubled as a transit tour, with participants constantly mapping transit routes, crowding buses, and eventually crossing boroughs.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
Not just the bookish scavenger hunt, but also the culture of people speaking and thinking in literary allusions and textual analysis.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
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Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Anderson also attends reading clubs, encourages students to read more and organizes scavenger hunts and other fun activities around the books, Johnson said.
—Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Fittingly, his scavenger hunt doubled as a transit tour, with participants constantly mapping transit routes, crowding buses, and eventually crossing boroughs.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
Not just the bookish scavenger hunt, but also the culture of people speaking and thinking in literary allusions and textual analysis.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scavenger hunt
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“Scavenger hunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scavenger%20hunt. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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