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Noun
Minor scrapes and blisters happen too often while traveling, and the ship's medical center is notoriously expensive for the little stuff that a bandage would fix.—
Robin Raven,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026 The Dirty Beaches founder’s own saxophone and trumpet lead the players’ cut-and-pasted recordings down dark alleys of decay and introspection, backdropped by percussive bangs and scrapes that suggest the construction of some great, mysterious superstructure.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
19 June 2026
Verb
Online retailers, travel companies, and publishers, which spent decades wrangling with Google over how to get paid for their websites, now face the same challenge as LLMs scrape their content.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
7 July 2026 The scribe carefully inscribed each line with a quill made from a goose feather, while their other hand wielded an erasing knife used to sharpen the quill and scrape away any mistakes.—Literary Hub,
6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for scrape
And, in any event, the heat waves of the past few weeks and the heat pouring out of the world’s oceans remind us that humans don’t get to set the terms of their encounter with physics.
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Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
9 July 2026
Witness the ongoing reaction to the most recent bear encounter, a bloody showdown that swept across TV, newspapers and social media.
Made-from-scratch cheesecake doesn’t seem so hard when made as cupcakes where there’s no water bath, springform pan, and long chilling time required.
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Brennan Long,
Southern Living,
3 July 2026
The report's authors said the case highlights the importance of seeking immediate medical evaluation after any direct contact with a bat, even if there is no visible bite or scratch.
So wouldn’t that lack of depth, Rodríguez’s restrictions, and injuries to Carlos Rodón (elbow inflammation) and Max Fried (elbow bone bruise) make starting pitching another deadline priority for the Yankees?
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
10 July 2026
So, the pre-existing bumps and bruises are worth monitoring as the roster shapeshifts throughout camp.
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Mike Kaye
July 9,
Charlotte Observer,
9 July 2026
Clean larger produce, like melons, with a brush and cut away any bruised or damaged portions.
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Alex Nettles,
AJC.com,
11 July 2026
That includes a bath with breed-appropriate shampoo, a blow-dry and brush-out, a haircut or trim based on breed and preference, nail clipping and filing, ear cleaning and eye area cleaning.
According to the lawsuit, the toddler was taken to the emergency room later that day for evaluation of blunt head trauma and was diagnosed with a concussion, traumatic brain injury and facial abrasions.
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Shafiq Najib,
ABC News,
7 July 2026
Washing inside out also helps prevent color loss from abrasion, which can leave dark colors looking faded.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
5 July 2026
These mesmerizing Embden geese graze in large gaggles throughout the tea fields.
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Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2026
Dinner and drinks take place outside the train station, but on the one million hectares of land around it, tens of thousands of merino sheep graze, with an annual shearing happening in February.
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