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Recent Examples of scrounge
The choices that Tahereh and her family are making — regarding how to scrounge for money and how to appeal to Hossein’s family for mercy — aren’t impacted anymore by what did or didn’t happen.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025
Drake’s team usually scrounged up the clues that later exonerated Mason’s clients.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 18 May 2025
Across a roughly three-week players’ strike, desperate franchises scrounged to the ends of the earth to find replacement athletes to break the picket line.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 May 2025
Visiting the contestants’ holding cell farmhouse, Gutfeld heads to the off-limits (for the cast) control room to try to scrounge up a bit more scratch.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025
Drake’s team usually scrounged up the clues that later exonerated Mason’s clients.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 18 May 2025
Across a roughly three-week players’ strike, desperate franchises scrounged to the ends of the earth to find replacement athletes to break the picket line.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 May 2025
Visiting the contestants’ holding cell farmhouse, Gutfeld heads to the off-limits (for the cast) control room to try to scrounge up a bit more scratch.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrounge
earn
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And another gives users a way to create interactive AI personas from text prompts and earn money from their dynamic digital assets through a token system, uniting creative freedom with blockchain stability.—
Tomer Warschauer Nuni,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Those students could earn $55,000 while taking classes for their master’s degrees and working in the field under mentors at MPS.—
Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Scrounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrounge. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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