Thesaurus results for SCRAPPER

scrapper

noun

ˈskra-pər

as in fighter

a person who takes part in a dispute both movie critics are real scrappers, so their on-air discussions of the latest releases are often heated

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Recent Examples of scrapper Netflix was a disruptor, a forever-scrapper trying to gain the respect of Warner Bros. —

Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025 Lee is sixty-one years old, a scrapper with a potent backstory. —

E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 4 June 2025 Similarly, Kiki vacillates between a broad figure of oblivious privilege, not that far removed from Moore’s The Big Lebowski heiress, and a scrapper who feels just as insecure in this place as either sister. —

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025 Howard Lutnick Secretary of commerce Net worth: $3.2 billion Source of wealth: Finance The Wall Street scrapper became a face of American resilience in the wake of 9/11, rebuilding his now 14,000-person team after losing more than 650 employees at Cantor Fitzgerald’s World Trade Center offices. —

Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scrapper

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Noun

Just like that, her career as a professional fighter was over.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
By Saturday, the Pentagon had surged more than 150 aircraft to join the effort to rescue the weapons system officer, Dude 44B, including 64 fighter jets, four bombers, 48 refuelers, 13 rescue planes and 26 intelligence and jamming aircraft, sources told CBS News.

— Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026