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Recent Examples of scab
Look for improved cultivars that are resistant to fire blight and scab.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
Applying fungicide can reduce scab and its severity, improve grain weight and reduce mycotoxin contamination.
—Tom W. Allen, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
In more severe cases, the skin may crack, ooze, scab or become raw and extremely uncomfortable.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Eventually, those bumps blister, ooze fluid, and scab over.
—Alisa Hrustic, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
Applying fungicide can reduce scab and its severity, improve grain weight and reduce mycotoxin contamination.
—Tom W. Allen, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
In more severe cases, the skin may crack, ooze, scab or become raw and extremely uncomfortable.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Eventually, those bumps blister, ooze fluid, and scab over.
—Alisa Hrustic, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
Noun
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New Orleans has long been notorious for embracing such scoundrels, a reputation that isn’t exactly helped by the fact that, for many years, disgraced attorneys who lost their licenses in Louisiana and applied for readmission to the bar often got it.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Sure, the Oscar-winning makeup helps transform the actor into Cheney, but the voice and petulance are all Bale, whose conjuring of this scoundrel ought to trigger PTSD for anyone who survived the Dubya years.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Could someone new swoop in and excite the voters enough to go rogue?—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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Follow up by using a vacuum with a brush attachment to remove any remaining debris (like spiderwebs or rogue pet hair).—
Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The first time, Julian’s children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) seemed like miserable, greedy wretches.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2026
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The elegant sets and lavish costume designs are stunning, as is Jacob Elordi's multi-faceted performance as the intelligent wretch stitched together from corpses.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
27 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Like a cartoon villain, though, Paula kicks up the edge of the carpet, which causes poor Miriam to make a dog’s dinner of afternoon tea.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2026
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Nemesis achieves a lot, introducing a dangerous new villain that even the mighty Asgard fear, while ramping up the tension for a suitably dramatic season finale.—
Daryl Baxter,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Zeus did not approve of his daughter fooling around with this mortal roughneck hunter and put out a hit on Orion.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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Livestock ranchers, roughnecks and agriculture have had a storied past in the rural land surrounding what is now a long stretch of Interstate Highway 680.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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First seen at a night-club table of menacing lowlifes, Ida, whose mother tongue is Brooklynese, suddenly switches to a heavy British accent and dispenses a torrent of highly literary sarcasms.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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There is a new lowlife generation that can’t speak without using vulgar terms.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Lewis makes Allegra a horny scamp, and Olyphant’s Pete, the group ringleader, has a svelte savagery.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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The history of The Little Rascals dates back to the 1920s, when a series of short films called our Our Gang introduced audiences to lovable scamps like Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Porky.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Right now, the rascal in him slumbers, briefly glimpsed now and again behind dark shades.—
Emma Madden,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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