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
That's a significant concern for the 36-year-old scrapper heading into UFC 313.
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Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
The prelims will feature three bouts featuring fighters from Australia, so the crowd will be rocking, cheering on the local scrappers.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
That scrapper, his out-of-season t-shirt, the playground and the flashed Playboy...
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
Every Volunteers outing has been a blowout, save for their one-point scrapper over Illinois.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
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Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
The prelims will feature three bouts featuring fighters from Australia, so the crowd will be rocking, cheering on the local scrappers.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
That scrapper, his out-of-season t-shirt, the playground and the flashed Playboy...
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
Every Volunteers outing has been a blowout, save for their one-point scrapper over Illinois.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrapper
Noun
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Colombia's 15,600-person-strong air force operates several different types of aircraft, roughly a third of which are fighter ground-attack aircraft capable of carrying out missions in the air or attacks on land.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Trump’s remarks come after Beijing infuriated him by expanding export controls on rare earth products that are used in smartphones, fighter jets, electric vehicles and more.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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The defendants have denied the allegations.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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Vance plays Leila’s boss at the law firm; Shaw plays a partner at the firm and Leila’s second chair; Rhys plays Leila’s husband, the prosecutor on the case; and Reynor plays her client, the defendant.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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The plaintiffs’ attorney said Ramos fired twice, pointing to two bullets found away from the main crime scene that are believed to have injured the six bystanders.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
16 Oct. 2025
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In addition to lawyers from EFF, the plaintiffs are represented by lawyers from Muslim Advocates, a legal group for American Muslims, and by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, a student law clinic at Yale Law School.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
16 Oct. 2025
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In ancient Greece, there were professional debaters.—
Solomon D. Stevens,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
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Kirk became known as a fierce ― and controversial ― debater.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Displacing the ’90s boom bap and aughts brawlers of her last album is a streak of assiduous ’80s R&B exercises that foreground her gains as a vocalist more often than her gobstopping wordplay as a rapper.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Walsh is aggressive, precise, and has a bit of that Irish brawler edge.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Some even licked the candy to soften it -- a trick used by contestants in the show.—
Hakyung Kate Lee,
ABC News,
17 Oct. 2025
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Sandoz Presta was a contestant on Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor in 2017.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Jay Treaty asked the disputants merely to start a process leading to the appointment of arbitrators qualified to decide their disputes fairly and finally.—
Tom Bell,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2025
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The audience and actor are like disputants kept in different rooms, forbidden to see each other fully.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Scrapper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrapper. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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