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Recent Examples of scrape
Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
Judge halts 'slapdash approach' to erasing HHS web pages
In federal court in Washington, D.C., HHS got into another legal scrape when the advocacy group Doctors for America challenged its decision to take down web pages filled with vital healthcare information.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
To do this, Mock suggests, moving everything from the countertop and scraping away any crumbs or debris.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Within hours, the area of the scrape began to burn and sting.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
Judge halts 'slapdash approach' to erasing HHS web pages
In federal court in Washington, D.C., HHS got into another legal scrape when the advocacy group Doctors for America challenged its decision to take down web pages filled with vital healthcare information.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Verb
Some brokers scrape public records, while others buy data from loyalty cards, surveys or sweepstakes.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
To do this, Mock suggests, moving everything from the countertop and scraping away any crumbs or debris.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrape
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Advertisement Advertisement The high-profile summit in Anchorage, the first in-person encounter between the two leaders since 2019, was aimed at exploring a path toward a cease-fire in the war in Ukraine, even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had not been invited.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
16 Aug. 2025
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The second major encounter came in July 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Jessi had made a Skyline Way from scratch, but substituted the shredded cheddar cheese with white cheddar.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
23 Aug. 2025
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Why not instead build replacement human organs from scratch?—
David A. Brenner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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Harry suffered cuts and bruises from landing on a dog bowl.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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To neutralize discoloration, peach color corrector from Tarte was applied directly over the bruise.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Just over two hours east of San Diego and 15 miles north of the Mexican border town of Mexicali, El Centro has both grit and charm.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Aug. 2025
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Traders can use that as their pivot point while longer-term investors may want to just grit their teeth and live through it — a decline like that would only make the dividend yield even more juicy.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
4 Aug. 2025
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Reduce rodent habitat around your home, workplace, and recreational areas by removing brush, rock piles, junk, cluttered firewood and possible rodent food supplies.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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In other words, company leaders should look at particular opportunities rather than painting the country with a broad brush.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Also visible in the image is an abrasion patch, a 2-inch (5-centimeter) area of the Martian surface into which Perseverance drilled with its diamond-dust tipped grinder known as the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT), capable of spinning at 3,000 revolutions per minute.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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These issues can include: Corneal abrasions: Contact lenses or foreign objects can scratch or scrape the epithelium, the outer layer of your cornea.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
1 Aug. 2025
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The victim, a 23-year-old from Hamden, sustained a graze wound and his injuries were determined to be non-life-threatening, Bruckhart said.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
17 Aug. 2025
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The other 18-year-old was treated at the scene for a graze wound to his left hand, police said.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Scrape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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