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as in grits
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 scrapes
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
Recovery and What Comes Next At SeaWorld’s facility, the care team focused on hydrating and warming the manatee while treating cuts and scrapes on the belly and underside, as well as treating an infection.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
There, the team focused on hydrating and warming him while treating cuts and scrapes on his belly and underside, along with an infection.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
Nelson Villa is battered and bruised, pointing out a fat lip, a couple of bumps, and scrapes.
—Ted Scouten, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
Federal crash data indicated that Waymo vehicles were involved in at least 202 crashes in Arizona between 2021 and 2024, from minor scrapes to 31 crashes that resulted in injuries, the Arizona’s Family news outlet reported.
—Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2026
Three weeks before the motel incident, Rodriguez brought the woman to the same hospital with a two-inch gash on her forehead, a reddened neck and various scrapes.
—Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026
Footage from the show at the time also shows a cut in her dress, as well as scrapes on her legs.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
Five Disneyland visitors suffered minor scrapes and scratches in 2008 when a tree branch fell near the Cafe Orleans restaurant in New Orleans Square, according to the Orange County Register.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026
Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 1 Apr. 2026
To show me, Max reaches a metal pick into a tank of clear water and scrapes a white line that seems to hover in the center of the tank.
—Blair Braverman, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Meyer helped design a tracking system that scrapes data from Zillow to detect price hikes greater than 10%.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Kgasi makes his way down to one of the vertical surfaces of the pit and scrapes it gently.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
With a palette knife, Callie Siskel scrapes at the raw face of elegy, revealing interior forms on a canvas where the poet’s father lives beyond death.
—Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
But the legendary key party scene only scrapes the surface, and the film's blue-gray moodiness is downright enveloping, not to mention its brutally honest depiction of family ties.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Nobody catches it for week, until someone scrapes customer addresses and posts them online.
—Daniel Fusch, Ascend Agency, 28 Oct. 2025
Injuries can occur when the person scrapes over the rocks.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
Water damage, humidity, and hinges that need adjustments can also create shifts that leave scrapes and wear.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
Recovery and What Comes Next At SeaWorld’s facility, the care team focused on hydrating and warming the manatee while treating cuts and scrapes on the belly and underside, as well as treating an infection.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
There, the team focused on hydrating and warming him while treating cuts and scrapes on his belly and underside, along with an infection.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
Nelson Villa is battered and bruised, pointing out a fat lip, a couple of bumps, and scrapes.
—Ted Scouten, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
Federal crash data indicated that Waymo vehicles were involved in at least 202 crashes in Arizona between 2021 and 2024, from minor scrapes to 31 crashes that resulted in injuries, the Arizona’s Family news outlet reported.
—Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2026
Three weeks before the motel incident, Rodriguez brought the woman to the same hospital with a two-inch gash on her forehead, a reddened neck and various scrapes.
—Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026
Footage from the show at the time also shows a cut in her dress, as well as scrapes on her legs.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
Five Disneyland visitors suffered minor scrapes and scratches in 2008 when a tree branch fell near the Cafe Orleans restaurant in New Orleans Square, according to the Orange County Register.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026
Verb
Avery Sullivan, with whom Morris also plays in the country-rock band Fust, keeps loose time on drums, tapping the snare like someone setting down coffee mugs while Libby Rodenbough scrapes out a few melody lines on her fiddle and colors empty spaces with some ghostly tremolo.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 1 Apr. 2026
To show me, Max reaches a metal pick into a tank of clear water and scrapes a white line that seems to hover in the center of the tank.
—Blair Braverman, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Meyer helped design a tracking system that scrapes data from Zillow to detect price hikes greater than 10%.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Kgasi makes his way down to one of the vertical surfaces of the pit and scrapes it gently.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
With a palette knife, Callie Siskel scrapes at the raw face of elegy, revealing interior forms on a canvas where the poet’s father lives beyond death.
—Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
But the legendary key party scene only scrapes the surface, and the film's blue-gray moodiness is downright enveloping, not to mention its brutally honest depiction of family ties.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Nobody catches it for week, until someone scrapes customer addresses and posts them online.
—Daniel Fusch, Ascend Agency, 28 Oct. 2025
Injuries can occur when the person scrapes over the rocks.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrapes
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When the El Paso Sector was logging more than 50,000 migrant encounters per month in late 2023, under President Joe Biden, the Big Bend Sector saw roughly 1,500.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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Sometimes the encounters are fatal, as in the cases of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis — both American citizens killed by federal agents while out observing immigration enforcement actions.—
Leila Fadel,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Rabies, a virus transmitted through bites and scratches, poses risks to both humans and pets.—
Eric Henderson,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Each sample was placed against a black background and backlit to reveal surface scratches.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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A week earlier, an emergency rescue helicopter found the woman with bruises and lacerations after a fall at a rocky spot at the waterfall on the South Island's West Coast.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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The bumps and bruises, aches, pain and fatigue that comes with air travel and sleeping in hotels and the unrelenting schedule takes its toll.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Scrapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrapes. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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