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Recent Examples of scroungeIsla is pregnant, and Jamie scrounges out a living as a scavenger.—ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025 Family members would scrounge bushes for herbs that had little effect on the boy’s symptoms.—Cynthia Tully, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025 Cooking gas prices have spiraled as much as 30-fold, so families are back to scrounging for wood to make fires.—Arkansas Online, 31 Mar. 2025 Read Next Washington State Person scrounging for metal finds WA woman’s body in freezer, feds say.—Sara Schilling, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scrounge
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Canning allowed four runs (three earned) on six hits, walked two and struck out four over five innings.
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Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2025
Simpson pitched two innings, allowing four runs (three earned) on three hits, including a three-run homer by Drake Baldwin.
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