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Recent Examples of scab
Thanks to its hallmark rash, which is characterized by red to brownish bumps that blister, leak fluid, and scab over, shingles, a.k.a.
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Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 9 Apr. 2025
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By Kara McGrath
The hardest part was applying skin care without accidentally rubbing off a scab.
—Vanese Maddix, Allure, 6 May 2025
The process usually takes between two and three weeks, and those who are infected are contagious until all scabs heal and new skin forms.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Climbing: Are those scabs more from your family life or from experiences in the mountains?
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2025
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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
The process usually takes between two and three weeks, and those who are infected are contagious until all scabs heal and new skin forms.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Climbing: Are those scabs more from your family life or from experiences in the mountains?
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
Noun
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The baby girl had gone rogue after at first doing the same.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2025
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In recent years, Morgan has appeared in a variety of projects, including The Good Wife, Invincible and The Boys, typically playing a similar smooth-talking, charming rogue.—
Kirsten Acuna,
People.com,
16 June 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Clayface is shape-shifting villain in the Batman comics and got his introduction as part of Detective Comics #40 in June 1940.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 June 2025
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Welcome to the Post-Trust Era A social media app isn’t the villain.—
Ankush Chowdhary,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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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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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Something tells me those wary rascals spotted us and gave us the slip.—
Percy Brown,
Outdoor Life,
12 June 2025
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Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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