SCRAPED (OUT) Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

scraped (out)

verb

past tense of scrape (out)

as in eked out

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Crocker, who survived the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, said that at this point an unconditional opening of the Strait of Hormuz to all maritime traffic should be the objective.

— Monica Haider, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
What survived is a tax that raises little, exempts anyone with a bank account, and concentrates its burden on the sliver of senders least able to route around it.

— Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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Tournament football isn’t generally conducive to pressing, with so many matches squeezed into such a short window, and without the cohesion that comes from club sides training together for months.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 22 July 2026
My problem is the kart path along the road has 3 or so feet of grass between it and the road, then suddenly the grass narrows and is eventually gone before going over the bridge and everything is squeezed together.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026

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The search lasted until Monday, when Núñez returned to the disaster site convinced that her son had not survived and that his body was still beneath the rubble.

— Susana Erazo, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Sanford and Son ended after the actor accepted an offer from competitor ABC to star in his own variety series, which lasted less than a year.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

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