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Recent Examples of scab
Don’t scratch the tattooed skin or pick at scabs that form.
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Brendan Camp, Verywell Health, 28 June 2025
Further out, the oil fields of Kern County are like dinosaur relics — scabs on the surface of the earth.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
Pain and itching should begin to subside as the scabs from shingles blisters heal, generally resolving by about one month to five weeks from your first symptoms.
—Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2025
Or will a team as good as the Lakers re-open scabs that might not actually have healed.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2025
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Brendan Camp, Verywell Health, 28 June 2025
Further out, the oil fields of Kern County are like dinosaur relics — scabs on the surface of the earth.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
Pain and itching should begin to subside as the scabs from shingles blisters heal, generally resolving by about one month to five weeks from your first symptoms.
—Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2025
Or will a team as good as the Lakers re-open scabs that might not actually have healed.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
Noun
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For more than two millennia, the promise of alchemy—and, specifically, transmuting ordinary elements into valuable ones—has intrigued scientists and scoundrels alike.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
9 Aug. 2025
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Star Wars Outlaws This first open world Star Wars game is set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and follows scoundrel Kay Vess seeking freedom and a new life.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The first a resurgence of the Phantom Hacker attacks which trick PC users into installing rogue apps.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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From Metallica to Osbourne’s Black Sabbath bandmates, good friend Elton John, longtime solo band guitarist Zakk Wylde, KISS’ Gene Simmons and Korn, the kind words about the beloved hard rock rogue with a heart of gold came pouring in from all quarters.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
23 July 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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Temuera Morrison plays a terrific villain as the murderous King Kahekili.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Living with the aftermath Smollett in Episode 9 Courtesy of Apple TV+ Lehane never set out to create a simple morality tale with clear heroes and villains.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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In those days, long past, the progress of operations carried out on an oilfield location was determined solely by the grit and tenacity of the workers involved, the roughnecks.—
Matt Randolph,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Times are uncertain for those old-school roughnecks that still go to work every day in the patch; their numbers are much smaller in size as operations move at the speed of light due to efficiency; new workers come in with new skills.—
Matt Randolph,
Forbes.com,
10 July 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
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Krypto is, above all, a little scamp, a characterization that Gunn leans on as Krypto playfully roughhouses with Supes in his new film.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
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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
Noun
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Kealoha was an irreverent rascal on set Everyone on the panel — and several other Lilo & Stitch team members in behind-the-scenes footage — agreed that Kealoha was a force to be reckoned with on set.—
Sharareh Drury,
People.com,
26 July 2025
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The former child actors have grown up since their go-kart derby days on-screen — some have even welcomed their own little rascals off-screen.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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