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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
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
Eye rinse helped, but didn’t prevent fresh cuts and scrapes, or stray seeds from gathering in his eyes.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 24 Dec. 2025
Yet more high-profile scrapes with the law impeded progress on a follow-up album.
—Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
The woman told investigators Herzing had made similar threats in July, which resulted in the victim suffering minor scrapes after dismounting at a stoplight.
—Lauren Breunig, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2025
The boy suffered a concussion, a broken leg and bruises and scrapes.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 27 Nov. 2025
Kamran Khokar, a senior boy whose father was a counsellor in the Rawalpindi wards, knew one of the brewery managers, in fact knew all sorts of tricks and could get his fellow-students into scrapes and then out of them unscathed.
—Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
The ending, too, undercuts the sensation that Gruesome Playground Injuries could just keep going and going through the rest of Doug and Kayleen’s scrapes—as Brown also noted back in 2011, the play carries the odd implication that life ends in your thirties.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2025
Anthropic is 40,000 scrapes for one visitor.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025
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
Bargiel pizza wedges, butt-slides, and scrapes his edges down the mountain.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 12 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
For a deeper dive into DeRose-Broeckert’s findings about how deer perceive scrapes and rubs, head over to NDA.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
Data from Revelio Labs, which scrapes professional networking sites like LinkedIn, show a gain of 60,000 jobs last month, mostly in healthcare and education.
—Danny Bakst, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
The spiral layer also provides a deeper exfoliation that scrapes off dead cells, resulting in smoother, silkier skin.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
The fieldwork covered 146 signposts in all, providing a broad look at 109 rubs and 37 scrapes across the forest.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
Eye rinse helped, but didn’t prevent fresh cuts and scrapes, or stray seeds from gathering in his eyes.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 24 Dec. 2025
Yet more high-profile scrapes with the law impeded progress on a follow-up album.
—Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
The woman told investigators Herzing had made similar threats in July, which resulted in the victim suffering minor scrapes after dismounting at a stoplight.
—Lauren Breunig, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2025
The boy suffered a concussion, a broken leg and bruises and scrapes.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 27 Nov. 2025
Kamran Khokar, a senior boy whose father was a counsellor in the Rawalpindi wards, knew one of the brewery managers, in fact knew all sorts of tricks and could get his fellow-students into scrapes and then out of them unscathed.
—Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
The ending, too, undercuts the sensation that Gruesome Playground Injuries could just keep going and going through the rest of Doug and Kayleen’s scrapes—as Brown also noted back in 2011, the play carries the odd implication that life ends in your thirties.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2025
Anthropic is 40,000 scrapes for one visitor.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025
Verb
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
Bargiel pizza wedges, butt-slides, and scrapes his edges down the mountain.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 12 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
For a deeper dive into DeRose-Broeckert’s findings about how deer perceive scrapes and rubs, head over to NDA.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
Data from Revelio Labs, which scrapes professional networking sites like LinkedIn, show a gain of 60,000 jobs last month, mostly in healthcare and education.
—Danny Bakst, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
The spiral layer also provides a deeper exfoliation that scrapes off dead cells, resulting in smoother, silkier skin.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrapes
Noun
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Season 2 begins with Langdon's first day back in action, which will inevitably lead to some awkward encounters.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Jan. 2026
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Experts say there is no clear pattern behind recent shark encounters, emphasizing that the ocean is a dynamic environment where humans enter the natural habitat of marine predators.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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So consider the size and severity of scratches and markings, as well as the item's price.—
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
10 Jan. 2026
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Everything is wrapped in a Ceraluminum ceramic finish that resists fingerprints and scratches while feeling premium in hand.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Flores arrived at court wearing bandages on her face and, according to her attorney, complaining of bruises on her ribs.—
Elizabeth Rosner,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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Just a bump to follow the bruises.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Scrapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrapes. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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