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both movie critics are real scrappers, so their on-air discussions of the latest releases are often heated
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McCrimmon’s Fanny, by contrast, has the hectic air of a jobbing performer, a scrapper more than a sure thing, one who learned to talk as fast as humanly possible before the door slams in her face.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
About the only promising thing that happened in this period (aside from the establishment of the foundation that’s been keeping it from the scrappers all these years) was that one of those owners stripped the interiors to get all the asbestos out.
—Brittany Murray/medianews Group/long Beach Press-Telegram Via Getty Images, Curbed, 19 Jan. 2024
The Warriors still have herky-jerk players, role guys who can do the little things right, scrappers, and spot-up shooters.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
Lester thinks that there’s some special alchemy in the way Brustein was simultaneously an avuncular, loving figure and a bare-knuckle scrapper.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
Dexter was a scrapper himself—their bond was sealed when Cobb saved his life in a horrific barroom brawl—and also something of a pain aficionado.
—Sam Sacks, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023
Harlan’s Lathan Skrobarcek is a scrapper.
—David Hinojosa, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Apr. 2023
The coach unveiled a template while guiding undermanned UCLA to its first appearance in a Final Four since 2008 because every player was willing to maximize his role — Johnny Juzang as a scorer, Jaime Jaquez Jr. as a scrapper, Tyger Campbell as an orchestrator.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
No easy lesson, especially for a scrapper like me who was used to righting all my worldly wrongs with my fists.
—Roxanne Jones, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
About the only promising thing that happened in this period (aside from the establishment of the foundation that’s been keeping it from the scrappers all these years) was that one of those owners stripped the interiors to get all the asbestos out.
—Brittany Murray/medianews Group/long Beach Press-Telegram Via Getty Images, Curbed, 19 Jan. 2024
The Warriors still have herky-jerk players, role guys who can do the little things right, scrappers, and spot-up shooters.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
Lester thinks that there’s some special alchemy in the way Brustein was simultaneously an avuncular, loving figure and a bare-knuckle scrapper.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
Dexter was a scrapper himself—their bond was sealed when Cobb saved his life in a horrific barroom brawl—and also something of a pain aficionado.
—Sam Sacks, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023
Harlan’s Lathan Skrobarcek is a scrapper.
—David Hinojosa, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Apr. 2023
The coach unveiled a template while guiding undermanned UCLA to its first appearance in a Final Four since 2008 because every player was willing to maximize his role — Johnny Juzang as a scorer, Jaime Jaquez Jr. as a scrapper, Tyger Campbell as an orchestrator.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
No easy lesson, especially for a scrapper like me who was used to righting all my worldly wrongs with my fists.
—Roxanne Jones, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
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“Scrapper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrapper. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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