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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
Holly Yan, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
The next day, the eggs bonded tightly to the metal and could be neither folded nor rolled nor, indeed, actually extracted from the pan or even scraped from it.
—Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2026
Ohtani scraped off the bottom of his cleats and struck out Hoskins for the final out of a dominant start.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
Your dinner plates will be scraped clean even faster, ready for seconds.
—Hana Asbrink, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
Max Scherzer looks sharp, feels fresh Max Scherzer scraped his cleats on the back of the Minnesota Twins’ spring mound before stepping in for his first pitch on Friday.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Helium is used during the etching process, when material that's been deposited on a wafer is scraped away to form transistor structures, said Jacob Feldgoise, an analyst at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
—ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
That’s something that the broader AI industry has so far struggled to do, partly because LLMs are typically trained on vast, messy datasets scraped from across the internet, where ownership, consent and individual contributions from millions of sources are nearly impossible to track.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Data brokers collect and resell personal information gathered from public records, websites and scraped databases.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
Verb
Bird poop scraped off a man’s car appeared on a drug test as cocaine.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
The next day, the eggs bonded tightly to the metal and could be neither folded nor rolled nor, indeed, actually extracted from the pan or even scraped from it.
—Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2026
Ohtani scraped off the bottom of his cleats and struck out Hoskins for the final out of a dominant start.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
Your dinner plates will be scraped clean even faster, ready for seconds.
—Hana Asbrink, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
Max Scherzer looks sharp, feels fresh Max Scherzer scraped his cleats on the back of the Minnesota Twins’ spring mound before stepping in for his first pitch on Friday.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Helium is used during the etching process, when material that's been deposited on a wafer is scraped away to form transistor structures, said Jacob Feldgoise, an analyst at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
—ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
That’s something that the broader AI industry has so far struggled to do, partly because LLMs are typically trained on vast, messy datasets scraped from across the internet, where ownership, consent and individual contributions from millions of sources are nearly impossible to track.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Data brokers collect and resell personal information gathered from public records, websites and scraped databases.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 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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Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas was scratched shortly before the first pitch to attend to a family matter.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Hunt has been scratched 17 games in a row since March 1.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But the Olympic debutant gritted her teeth and tried to forget about her throbbing, bruised knee.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
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The 6-foot-6, 260-pound Westlake graduate missed just one game earlier this season but gritted his way through an undisclosed injury.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
12 Nov. 2025
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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Our data pal Rahul Deshpande (a Tech grad, obviously) crunched some numbers … and there are a lot of minutes going out the window.—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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On break point, Sabalenka crunched a backhand winner.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 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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And while many slow cookers now offer coated aluminum or stainless steel pots, the original Crock-Pot slow cooker that took over American kitchens in the 1970s featured a ceramic crock similar to Magnifique’s.—
Callie Sumlin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 Apr. 2026
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Visual observations have also shown that the coated perlite did not leach out prematurely.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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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The sandblasted and silver anodized surface is highly compatible with the finish on Apple laptops.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Scraped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scraped. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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