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Recent Examples of scab
There are many available cultivars, but ‘Elliott’, Excel’, ‘Lakota’, and ‘Sumner’ are cultivars that are documented as having good resistance to scab.
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Larry Figart, Florida Times-Union, 14 Jan. 2026
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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Larry Figart, Florida Times-Union, 14 Jan. 2026
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
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Paxton, meanwhile, is known for being a scoundrel.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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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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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
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Her bone-chilling performance earned her the MTV Movie Award for best villain, beating out the likes of Daniel Day-Lewis, Mike Myers, Willem Dafoe and Colin Farrell in her category.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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This was my villain origin story.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
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The West Texas native worked in the Permian Basin oil fields as a roughneck and later joined Texas Monthly as a fact-checker then staff writer.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2026
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The show focuses on roughnecks and billionaires in West Texas who are trying to get rich as the oil industry continues to take over the state.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2026
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In any year, in any culture, there are no antagonists (save for Nazis) better suited as action cinema heavies; rooting against child trafficking lowlifes is moral, easy, and best of all, a completely guiltless pleasure.—
Andy Crump,
IndieWire,
15 June 2026
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Or, plant a gun on a lowlife who deserved it and the world's a better place.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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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
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Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.—
Camille Perri,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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My mother was a total gem but also a bit of a rascal.—
Catherine Pearson,
New York Times,
8 May 2026
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Elswyth can shoot ivy vines from her hands, wrapping the vines around miscreants to incapacitate them.—
Chris Hewitt,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2026
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The cameras safeguard lawful policing and expose miscreants masquerading as officers.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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