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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
Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
Brazil beat the Netherlands 3–2 in the quarterfinals and scraped past Sweden 1–0 in the semifinals thanks to a goal from forward Romário.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
On Thursday last week, my son Leo scraped his arm on the playground at school.
—Samantha Silver, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2026
Once your tsukemen appears — terrifically chewy noodles built to catch every drop of the accompanying half-broth, half-gravy, as heady as drippings scraped from a roasting pan — the world recedes.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Late Wednesday morning at Jalisco’s in Kansas City, Kansas, longtime customers scraped their forks against their plates, enjoying some of their final bites at the restaurant.
—Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
His father finally scraped together about $30,000 to free him, and three years after his release, Diego started a business leading birding tours.
—Andy Court, CBS News, 3 May 2026
After all, one line of thinking goes, the big LLMs have already scraped everything available on the web.
—Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026
Artificial intelligence has scraped the book’s copy and polished its own words to seem like a real, emotional appeal.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
Verb
At four thirty, pink streaks the sky, like the time mama stepped on the brakes too fast at an intersection and the tires scraped the road black.
—Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
Brazil beat the Netherlands 3–2 in the quarterfinals and scraped past Sweden 1–0 in the semifinals thanks to a goal from forward Romário.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
On Thursday last week, my son Leo scraped his arm on the playground at school.
—Samantha Silver, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2026
Once your tsukemen appears — terrifically chewy noodles built to catch every drop of the accompanying half-broth, half-gravy, as heady as drippings scraped from a roasting pan — the world recedes.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Late Wednesday morning at Jalisco’s in Kansas City, Kansas, longtime customers scraped their forks against their plates, enjoying some of their final bites at the restaurant.
—Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
His father finally scraped together about $30,000 to free him, and three years after his release, Diego started a business leading birding tours.
—Andy Court, CBS News, 3 May 2026
After all, one line of thinking goes, the big LLMs have already scraped everything available on the web.
—Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026
Artificial intelligence has scraped the book’s copy and polished its own words to seem like a real, emotional appeal.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Apr. 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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Most of them were spent on the third defensive pairing, and then the 22-year-old was scratched for Tyson Hinds late in the year as Quenneville favored the size of Hinds, who spent most of his season in the American Hockey League.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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Replace scratched non-stick pans with cast iron, stainless steel or ceramic cookware.—
Ryan Brennan
May 11,
Miami Herald,
11 May 2026
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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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The puck had just slipped through Poehling’s skates when McNabb crunched Poehling into the boards, knocking him out for the rest of the game and prompting an official review.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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The agency did that, then crunched the numbers.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
13 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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My ferry trip was comparatively uneventful, though there were rough seas and the top deck lay coated in a film of human vomit, like chowder.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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Timothée Chalamet distressed and overdyed jeans with a brown suede jacket, while Jason Momoa paired a leather jacket with coated jeans.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
12 May 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 21 May. 2026.
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