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Recent Examples of scab
In the first two weeks, both the donor and recipient areas heal as scabs fall away and the scalp begins to settle.
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Wyles Daniel, Freep.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Applying fungicide can reduce scab and its severity, improve grain weight and reduce mycotoxin contamination.
—Tom W. Allen, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
Dime-sized scabs from the black pellet shrapnel cover their little bodies.
—Rob Schmitz, NPR, 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
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Wyles Daniel, Freep.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Applying fungicide can reduce scab and its severity, improve grain weight and reduce mycotoxin contamination.
—Tom W. Allen, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
Dime-sized scabs from the black pellet shrapnel cover their little bodies.
—Rob Schmitz, NPR, 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
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Going back to the origins of everyone's favorite scoundrel, Han Solo, may have felt like a no-brainer — especially with Kasdan on board as co-writer — but the film never felt like an essential addition to the rapidly expanding canon.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
17 Dec. 2025
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Giannis, a gentleman even in this era of scoundrels, likely wants to do right by the Bucks, too.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Rather than raze the city days before it was recovered by the Allied forces, Choltitz went rogue, negotiated a truce, and surrendered the city.—
Sally Susman,
Time,
27 Jan. 2026
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The broom goes rogue, continually pouring buckets of water into an overflowing well.—
Bipul Sinha,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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Her expressions, her movements, her delivery — all of it makes Carol more complex than just a miserable wretch.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Picking winners and losers, heroes and villains, pathways to success and failure, generates excitement for an event and manufactures a sense of urgency for maximal viewing pleasure.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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What the late Ka did to build resolve against the unforgiving brutalities of Brownsville, Marci combines with the flair of a Bond villain and contempt for anyone attempting to copy his mold.—
Dylan Green,
Pitchfork,
28 Jan. 2026
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Beyond his duties as a host and journalist, the native West Texan spent time working as an oil roughneck himself, and grew up in a family with members in the fields.—
William Earl,
Variety,
22 Dec. 2025
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His job as the titular landman is to secure leases for oil extraction, to manage crews of roughnecks, and to deal with local government and police.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Trump represents a father figure who is returning to the house, and there are various people living in it who are freeloaders and grifters and lowlifes abusing the kingdom.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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The groper was a lowlife—a deranged doctor, bent on harvesting astronaut semen for pernicious procreative ends.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Because a leathery little scamp like E.T. is lovable only in the uninhibited mind of a child; fear, distrust, and paranoia are born of experience and disappointment.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Jan. 2026
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The annual spawning season closure affects species such as black, gag, yellowfin, scamp, red and rock hind grouper, among others.—
Luisa Yanez,
Miami Herald,
28 Dec. 2025
Noun
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In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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In a time when unemployment is on the rise and the rich are running amok and wreaking havoc on the poor — and the social services in place to support them — who doesn’t love the idea of rogue rascals sticking it to a bougie institution by running off with its crown jewels?—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
12 Nov. 2025
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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