scab

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Recent Examples of scab Your homemade baking soda spray can also be used as a treatment for other fungal diseases, like anthracnose, scab, botrytis, and black spot on roses. Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2025 When allergies affect feline skin, symptoms include scratching at their face and ears, scabs on their skin and fur loss. Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 Thanks to its hallmark rash, which is characterized by red to brownish bumps that blister, leak fluid, and scab over, shingles, a.k.a. Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 9 Apr. 2025 Even My Stylist Says This Serum Makes My Hair Look Thicker By Kara McGrath The hardest part was applying skin care without accidentally rubbing off a scab. Vanese Maddix, Allure, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for scab
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Noun
  • Yet each performance feels angled at a slightly different degree, one distinct acting turn making all the difference between a charming scoundrel, a depressed artist, a loyal sidekick, an aloof intellectual, or a precocious kid.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
  • Is Jim Ellis a live-fast, die-young scoundrel or just a mostly pretty nice guy with a heart of gold who just happens to be working for the mob?
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • But when Amelia goes rogue on a lethal mission for AI to rule the world, Gemma comes to realize that M3GAN is the only one who can stop her.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • Essentially, two things triggered the LLMs into going rogue.
    David Szondy June 28, New Atlas, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Since then, he’s been a haunted wretch of a character: stoned, sullen, stuck with recurring visions of shooting his wife and himself.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Two of the game’s most brilliant villains have matured into eloquent eulogists.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • For an industry which has long been treated by the television and film industries as a dirty, dangerous business run by unethical, cartoon-ish villains like J.R. Ewing, such a balanced portrayal is a welcome change, indeed.
    David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Set in the oil boomtowns of West Texas, ‘Landman’ uses Thornton’s character, crisis manager Tommy Norris, as the anchor for an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling an industry that shapes the world’s climate, economy, and politics.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
  • But watching a group of roughnecks on a rig in grubby overalls moving huge, long steel pipes, Dugan's smile begins to fade to a smirk.
    Kirk Siegler, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • For a browner crust, broil the scamp for 1-2 minutes before serving.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • And now, without further ado, an ode to the rogues and rascals who make being hot and doing crimes in this galaxy so fun to watch.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Something tells me those wary rascals spotted us and gave us the slip.
    Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 12 June 2025

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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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