scraping (by or through)

present participle of scrape (by or through)

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Verb
  • The City of Portland’s official account also weighed in, posting that while national media painted a grim picture, daily life was carrying on as usual.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Big thanks to Betty Lin-Fisher and Baily Schulz for carrying on in our absence.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The duo are known for their close collaboration while also getting along well with their boss of five-and-a-half years, Cheeks.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes first Tribals can be kind of bonkers if tribe lines are still being drawn, or if two people are really not getting along, or if someone is really loony tunes, or someone else is really fighting hard to stay.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Parker gets a crew together including an old friend (LaKeith Stanfield) and a new ally (Rosa Salazar) to steal sunken treasure coming into New York, getting on the bad side of the mob and a billionaire.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • After several relatively normal visuals appear, including Ed at a roller rink and sitting at a diner across two women (both of whom appear to suspect something is wrong with him), the trailer then cuts to Ed getting on top of a corpse.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Patrick took it surprisingly well, because Kacie kept making out with him and confirming that her choice had nothing to do with her feelings for him.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The two were caught passionately making out at the 2019 ACM Awards by the CBS cameras.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Scraping (by or through).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scraping%20%28by%20or%20through%29. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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