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Recent Examples of scroungeNatron said in the statement that the layoff announcement came late because the company spent the summer scrounging up as many dollars as possible, hoping to avoid going under.—Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem was still scrounging her cosplay closet for a hard-shell Rolex when someone safely turned the turtles over.—Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025 His decision not to run is a severe blow to the Illinois GOP, which has been scrounging for a candidate to succeed Durbin, a longtime Illinois Democrat who’s held the seat since 1997.—Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 5 Aug. 2025 That was a problem because Tillis is on the whip team, tasked with helping leaders scrounge up votes for legislation.—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for scrounge
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earn
Verb
The starters in those games combined for 3 1/3 innings and 10 runs (six earned) allowed.
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Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Anyone who gets into that position has definitely earned it.
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