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Recent Examples of scrape
Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
Keep any injuries, cuts, or scrapes clean and disinfected.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 10 Aug. 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
To do this, Mock suggests, moving everything from the countertop and scraping away any crumbs or debris.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
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Noun
In the upcoming season premiering Wednesday on FXX and streaming next day on Hulu, the gang that runs Paddy’s Pub gets into more absurd scrapes.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
Keep any injuries, cuts, or scrapes clean and disinfected.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
Some brokers scrape public records, while others buy data from loyalty cards, surveys or sweepstakes.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
To do this, Mock suggests, moving everything from the countertop and scraping away any crumbs or debris.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrape
Noun
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Founded by two friends in 2003 after a chance bar room encounter in Manhattan, Vita Coco’s met with early success in its first decade, thanks in part to celebrity investors including Madonna, Demi Moore, and Matthew McConnaghy.—
Sergei Klebnikov,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Watch Mariah Carey recall her encounter with Tupac Shakur below.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Jessi had made a Skyline Way from scratch, but substituted the shredded cheddar cheese with white cheddar.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
23 Aug. 2025
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Why not instead build replacement human organs from scratch?—
David A. Brenner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Butler sustained numerous bruises and other injuries performing action sequences for the film.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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His mugshot shows him with a deep, dark bruise near his swollen eye.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Just over two hours east of San Diego and 15 miles north of the Mexican border town of Mexicali, El Centro has both grit and charm.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Aug. 2025
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Traders can use that as their pivot point while longer-term investors may want to just grit their teeth and live through it — a decline like that would only make the dividend yield even more juicy.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Reduce rodent habitat around your home, workplace, and recreational areas by removing brush, rock piles, junk, cluttered firewood and possible rodent food supplies.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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In other words, company leaders should look at particular opportunities rather than painting the country with a broad brush.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Washing inside out also helps prevent color loss from abrasion, which can leave dark colors looking faded.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
8 Aug. 2025
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Williams and other family members decided to use the hotel's indoor swimming pool, and Williams suffered a mild abrasion on her knee getting out of the pool.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
31 July 2025
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Officers were at the hospital when the 23-year-old man walked in with a graze wound.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
18 Aug. 2025
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The victim, a 23-year-old from Hamden, sustained a graze wound and his injuries were determined to be non-life-threatening, Bruckhart said.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Scrape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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