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noun

plural of scrabble

as in fights

a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective it'll be a long scrabble to pull ourselves out of poverty

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scrabbles

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verb

present tense third-person singular of scrabble

as in climbs

to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling we scrabbled up a sand dune to get a better view of the sea

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as in fumbles

to search for something blindly or uncertainly he frantically scrabbled through the storage chest looking for the needed documents

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Noun

Two of Iowa’s four Republican House members, both in their own worrying reelection fights, had just broken with the president to vote to stop the war with Iran.

— Natalie Allison, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2026
The company stages live fights where people remotely control humanoid robots against other humanoid robots.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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The naturally recurring warming of tropical Pacific waters scrambles rainfall patterns worldwide and often brings wetter springs to the Southern Hemisphere.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Where previous generations once encountered retro TV classics through reruns and physical media releases, streaming makes practically everything available all at once and scrambles the release chronology completely.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026

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Verb

However, each side holds that the Yemeni civil war has now entered a new phase from which neither side looks eager to extricate itself.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
For many of their classmates on campus and elsewhere around the country, the present looks bleak and the future uncertain at best.

— Jacqueline Ganun, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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But a judge has now paused construction across the region, giving a major boost to landowners who have sought to impede the wall by refusing to cooperate with government surveyors, protesting at county meetings and gearing up for court battles.

— Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Though their eligibility battles remain unsettled, both players took part in Thursday’s 45-minute open practice at Allen Fieldhouse as full-fledged members of KU’s 2026-27 team.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2026

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On a weekend morning, a van leaves Damascus and clambers toward Monte Rosa, a rocky area on the outskirts of the Syrian capital.

— Adri Salido, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2026
His colleague, a newly qualified environmental engineer, clambers up onto the backseat.

— Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025

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