scrape (up or together)

Definition of scrape (up or together)next
as in to earn
to get with great difficulty we're barely scraping together a living on the farm

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  • More than 30,000 of the hair tools have been bought in the past month, which has earned it best-seller status at Amazon.
    Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
  • What the extensions were doing behind the scenes Once activated, the extensions injected tracking code into real links to earn revenue from user purchases.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025
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“Scrape (up or together).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape%20%28up%20or%20together%29. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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