scrapes (by or through)

verb

present tense third-person singular of scrape (by or through)
as in carries on

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrapes (by or through)
  1. carries on
  2. manages
  3. makes out
  4. fares
  5. contrives
  6. copes
  7. gets along
  8. shifts
Verb
  • Now the restaurant is one of the places where Ortega carries on with life without Burciaga, who went back to his parents’ remote hometown in the mountains of Durango.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The World Trade Organization carries on adjudicating trade disputes, despite a surge in protectionism.
    — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of carries on
Verb
  • Moore breathes life into Mona, but manages to intertwine a sense of entitlement that nods to her former life as traditional housewife.
    — Cortlyn Kelly, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Benkert manages dozens of properties in Kauai and has boarded up two houses on the western side of the island.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of manages
Verb
  • The contemporary media environment makes out-and-out suppression of a book difficult.
    — Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
  • Even Fraser makes out with Rainbeau and Damo.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
Definition of makes out
Verb
  • As the actor who originated the role, Johnson fares a bit better as Maui, smirking and preening and repeatedly tossing Moana off her own boat in attempts to commandeer it for himself.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 July 2026
  • All of them are inheriting relatively stable situations at quarterback compared to some of last year’s first-timers, but innumerable factors will impact how each of them fares this season.
    — Joseph Person, New York Times, 24 June 2026
Definition of fares
Verb
  • Her early death, after an illness that the father initially contrives to ignore then notices just in time to capture her desperation in a fine sketch, leaves Mimí utterly disoriented, yearning only to achieve a level of self-control and detachment that will spare him their tumultuous struggle.
    — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The team of graphic designers behind Meow Wolf even contrives mini comics based on these realms so readers can get a pulse of how alive these worlds are.
    — Malik Peay, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
Definition of contrives
Verb
  • Hollis buries herself in work in an attempt to escape her complicated grief, while aspiring filmmaker Caroline copes by making snarky remarks and bristling at her mom's efforts to connect.
    — Clarissa Cruz, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
  • Gemini copes through logic and distraction, while Pisces feels everything at once.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
Definition of copes
Verb
  • John teaches at a small, leafy college by day, while by night working on a book about rationalist philosopher Spinoza and dating his beautiful colleague Becca (Sofia Boutella), a professor of psychology who has a son with whom John gets along well.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Who gets along with who, who is fighting with who, and how the dynamics within the family have shifted.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 July 2026
Definition of gets along
Verb
  • Try meeting their needs first and see if their behavior shifts.
    — Juli Fraga, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Translation is a mutation of language, but not direct replication; something happens in the process that shifts the direction of the ideas.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of shifts
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