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Recent Examples of scab
As the underlying skin heals, the dead cells form a scab that eventually falls off.
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Archana Sharma, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
Agarwood is the tree’s immune response to the infection, like how our skin forms a scab when we get cut.
—Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
Detectives immediately noticed Kayden had multiple bruises, lacerations, scabs and what appeared to be small burn marks on his face and body.
—Noe Padilla, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
His skin has the greyish pallor of spoiled beef, dotted with scabs and open wounds.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
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Archana Sharma, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
Agarwood is the tree’s immune response to the infection, like how our skin forms a scab when we get cut.
—Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
Detectives immediately noticed Kayden had multiple bruises, lacerations, scabs and what appeared to be small burn marks on his face and body.
—Noe Padilla, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
His skin has the greyish pallor of spoiled beef, dotted with scabs and open wounds.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
Noun
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So, what exactly happened in the roughly 12-minute disaster zone underneath the Live table, that resulted in Consuelos' zipper going rogue?—
EW.com,
EW.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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In an unexpected appearance, a rogue pigeon stole the show during the conclusion of Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.—
Edward Segarra,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Giacomo Casanova, who lived from 1725 to 1798, was a lawyer, a writer, an adventurer, a gambler and a scoundrel who found himself on the wrong side of the law.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post,
20 Jan. 2025
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Now that movie’s writer-director, Leigh Whannell, has returned to bring another classic fiend into the 21st century, with Poor Things scoundrel Christopher Abbott as a family man who starts feeling a little hairy after a full-moon encounter at his childhood home.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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As Blake transforms into a swollen, oozing wretch who gnaws frantically on his own wounds, his family appears as glowing-eyed aliens, their words a jumble of indecipherable sounds.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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The real villains, says Mozaffarian, are excessive amounts of refined grains, starches, and sugars, as well as salt and other preservatives, chemical additives, and contaminants from packaging.—
Sarah Boden,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2025
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And the guys playing all of our roughnecks were the same.—
Mark Peikert,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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Landman, set in the oil fields of West Texas, is punctuated by extensive diatribes from Tommy about the oil industry’s importance, the tragic necessity of landmen and roughnecks, and the fallacy of placing society’s hope on renewable energy.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
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Ever since 2008’s Taken opened up a surprisingly durable late-career reinvention for Liam Neeson as a taciturn action star of tough-guy dad thrillers, frequently dispatching lowlifes who mess with his family, it’s become the norm to expect more of the same.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Oct. 2024
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For a browner crust, broil the scamp for 1-2 minutes before serving.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Jan. 2025
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There was a brief flurry of excitement this week when Coritiba, a club in the Brazilian second division, announced that Neymar would be signing for them, but that turned out to be the result of some mischievous scamps who hacked their website.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
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After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
12 Mar. 2025
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The black rascal was giving something what-for, and that prompted a gobble only 200 yards from me, followed by another and another.—
Larry Dablemont,
Outdoor Life,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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