SCRAPES (OUT) Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

scrapes (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of scrape (out)

as in ekes out

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Ghiggia gallops in from the right and squeezes a finish in at the near post to win the cup for Uruguay in the Maracana.

— Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026
As a result, food inflation squeezes the amount of money people have left over to buy things like Levi's jeans and plane tickets, which brings us to our next earnings preview.

— Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 July 2026

Definition of squeezes

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Djed Spence was ruled to have initiated contact, and Norway survives the penalty call.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 12 July 2026
The foundations for whether a team survives those conditions or thrives in them were laid long before the first knockout match — through pre-World Cup preparation and the adaptations built over the opening weeks of the tournament.

— Alan McCall, New York Times, 11 July 2026

Definition of survives

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The initial pursuit — which technically lasts the entire episode — is plagued by stops and starts to introduce characters and better explain the stakes.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
The regular portal window normally opens right after the championship game and lasts for 15 days.

— Tobias Bass, New York Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of lasts

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The perennial funnyman suffered an immense tragedy earlier this year with the loss of his daughter, Katherine, yet still wrings laughs out of flamboyant director Oliver Putnam on Only Murders in the Building five seasons in.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026
Similarly, the cast wrings some poetry out of the prosaic, often aphoristic dialogue.

— Robert Lloyd, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2026

Definition of wrings

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Like everything else that works here, Brie’s performance wrests the last scraps of freshness from a mode of filmmaking this movie knows is played out, but doesn’t have the particular strength to reinvent.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 June 2026
Here, the director wrests a radioactive joy from observing Godard generate ideas with his ensemble, even as others pull their hair out around him.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025

Definition of wrests

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Sadly, the current publishing framework cannot be changed from within, as the demand for games is so high, and that affords a great deal of leverage to executives at publishers.

— Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Longs Peak is the tallest summit in the national park and affords stunning views but it is also known to see rapid, potentially disastrous changes in weather.

— Michael Loria, USA Today, 7 July 2026

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