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to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound
she scraped her fingernails across the chalkboard to get everyone's attention
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Recent Examples of scraped
Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
Text, images, and videos could be easily scraped from the internet at an industrial scale.
—Robert Hart, The Verge, 29 May 2026
If dishes have been scraped properly before loading, the cycle can usually handle the mess without issue.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
The 90-minute romantic dramedy was created outside of traditional filmmaking channels by a group of digital creator friends who scraped together the $100,000 budget from savings and sponsors.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 May 2026
Cage had his arm smashed multiple times, Wheeler had a piece of his nose nearly taken off and barbed wire scraped the skin of each competitor.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026
In biology, that reality is generated by pipettes and a vivarium full of mice, not scraped from the internet.
—Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
But as Palmer grew to his current height of 6 feet, 3 inches, his hand practically scraped the ceiling.
—Sam Brief, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
Unlike LLMs, which are trained on data scraped from the vast corpus of the internet, world models rely heavily on video—which is far more complex and harder to collect, label, and train on at scale.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Verb
How humans write, speak, code and compose was easily scraped off the internet, but the bots need more information to master how to stand, step, lift, squeeze, pour and perform other physical movements.
—Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
Text, images, and videos could be easily scraped from the internet at an industrial scale.
—Robert Hart, The Verge, 29 May 2026
If dishes have been scraped properly before loading, the cycle can usually handle the mess without issue.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
The 90-minute romantic dramedy was created outside of traditional filmmaking channels by a group of digital creator friends who scraped together the $100,000 budget from savings and sponsors.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 May 2026
Cage had his arm smashed multiple times, Wheeler had a piece of his nose nearly taken off and barbed wire scraped the skin of each competitor.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026
In biology, that reality is generated by pipettes and a vivarium full of mice, not scraped from the internet.
—Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
But as Palmer grew to his current height of 6 feet, 3 inches, his hand practically scraped the ceiling.
—Sam Brief, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
Unlike LLMs, which are trained on data scraped from the vast corpus of the internet, world models rely heavily on video—which is far more complex and harder to collect, label, and train on at scale.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scraped
Adjective
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But ground teams detected the helium leak in Starliner's service module in the aftermath of the scrubbed countdown.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
25 May 2024
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There were no young girls floating by in elegant dresses, no scrubbed and spoiled children dressed in their finery and dragged toward churches and pagodas, no whisper of music drifting out of windows.—
Chantha Nguon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2024
Verb
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Even though Neto played on Sunday and was in the lineup on Monday afternoon, he was scratched shortly before the game.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
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The Royals also caught a break, avoiding young Reds ace Chase Burns, who was scratched due to illness.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
Verb
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Govel even gritted through a nasty stinger on a comebacker in the bottom of the fourth.—
Jack Vita,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
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Govel even gritted through a nasty stinger on a comebacker in the bottom of the fourth inning.—
Jack Vita,
Oc Register,
23 May 2026
Adjective
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Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Property Appraiser Marty Kiar has crunched the latest numbers for Broward County, offering a detailed look at the impact in the first year and beyond for both homeowners and local governments.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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The Talent Trust crunched the numbers and found that a lack of support leads to hidden waste of more than £50,000 ($67,000) across a 30-day production, with this loss coming from higher overtime and burnout costs, along with technical errors.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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Fill the crack in the door with the epoxy wood filler, spreading a small bit of the paste over the sanded area to help close and bond the edges of the crack together.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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True ceramic and ceramic-coated pans are often touted as a safer alternative to Teflon pans.—
Ryan Brennan
June 2,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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The only caveat is that ceramic-coated cookware, like Teflon, isn’t designed for high-heat and degrades over time.—
Ryan Brennan
June 2,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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The brand also collaborated with Horny Hi-Fi on a custom hi-fi system consisting of wooden loudspeakers surmounted by a second amplifier in sandblasted chrome.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
1 May 2026
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The PryBar-PlayMaker is designed for wear resistance and fingerprint prevention, due to its sandblasted surface.—
Maryna Holovnova,
New Atlas,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Scraped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scraped. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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