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Recent Examples of scroungeIn 2019, a woman referred to as L.R. scrounged $2,400 from friends and family and paid it to Arroyo.—Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2025 Isla 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 See All Example Sentences for scrounge
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Cities are not required to assist with federal immigration law, but actively obstructing it could earn Mamdani federal charges.
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Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2025
Powell’s strategy to wait for more economic data earned the ire of President Donald Trump.
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