as in to eke out
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Wall Street is coming off a positive session, with stocks eking out a gain Monday even after President Donald Trump threatened a 30% tariff on the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1.—
Pia Singh,Sarah Min,
CNBC,
14 July 2025 -
This location is home to both a rogue’s gallery of mutants and the titular stalkers who eke out a living scavenging artifacts.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
9 July 2025
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Kalvin Phillips squeezes a pass through the gap and into Omari Hutchinson, taking three Forest players out of the game.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Marlene alleged her son grabbed and started to squeeze her throat.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
11 July 2025
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Sure, who had recently survived a life-threatening illness, hinted that more revelations were forthcoming in his memoir.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
15 July 2025
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The car sold at auction is one of nine built for filming, only two of which survived the production, according to Bonhams.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
15 July 2025
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The project has been in the works for four years, with construction lasting almost exactly two years.—
Kelly Wetherille,
Footwear News,
11 July 2025
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The drier conditions are expected to last through Friday before more rain is in the weekend forecast.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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Warmer oceans and air mean more evaporation and more moisture in the atmosphere, which gets wrung out in the form of more intense rain or snow.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
14 July 2025
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By late afternoon, some volunteer search crews began to regroup at the fire department, looking sweaty and wrung out.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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In a world where every business unit is under pressure to do more with less, talent and learning development (L&D) teams can no longer afford to operate like back-office cost centers.—
Ryan Austin,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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Nearly half of all families with young children can’t afford enough diapers to keep their babies clean, dry and healthy.—
Amy Kadens,
Chicago Tribune,
7 July 2025
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Or even how the sky and its painterly clouds seem to carry on and on in perpetuity.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
14 July 2025
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Matlock worked with Iggy Pop and Johnny Thunders, while lifelong friends Jones and Cook attempted to carry on together as the Professionals, but struggled to find relevance in the MTV era.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
12 July 2025
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But there is still an opportunity to wrest a positive outcome from the current tumult.—
Emily Kilcrease,
Foreign Affairs,
9 June 2025
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The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the linchpin of a new aid system that wrested distribution away from aid groups led by the U.N.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 July 2025
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“Scrape (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape%20%28out%29. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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