scraped (out)

verb

past tense of scrape (out)
as in eked out

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  1. survived
  2. squeezed
  3. wrung
  4. lasted
Verb
  • Alanna Schermerhorn-Wallace confronted Colt directly about watching her brother’s final moments on surveillance video, while oldest sister Lilianah Ahmed tearfully recalled the agonizing wait to learn whether Mason had survived.
    — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
  • More recently, a Russian Soyuz rocket survived a lightning strike during a 2019 launch and delivered its payload to orbit.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026
Definition of survived
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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
Definition of squeezed
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  • There is only so much drama left to be wrung from these sexy now-pseudo-singles in their final week.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 7 July 2026
  • In the face of this threat, the Democratic Party’s establishment has wrung its hands.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
Definition of wrung
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  • The conflict has lasted much longer and taken a far greater toll than officials projected.
    — Joelle Gross, NBC news, 24 July 2026
  • Their collaboration lasted eight years, unfolding at a breakneck pace.
    — Olivier Bouchara, Vanity Fair, 24 July 2026
Definition of lasted
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“Scraped (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scraped%20%28out%29. Accessed 31 Jul. 2026.

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