scrounged

past tense of scrounge
as in earned
to get with great difficulty scrounged up the money to pay his dental bills

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Recent Examples of scrounged It was reported that Costner, who had scrounged up some seed financing to start making his Horizon films, wanted to spend no more than a week on the Yellowstone set for the final episodes. Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • This Navfalcon Hidden Camera Detector has earned a permanent spot in my travel bag; this gadget picks up the radio frequency (RF) signals that are emitted by cameras and alerts you when these wireless signals have been detected.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Dylan, Olivia and Karagach's performance earned them 36/40 from the judges and plenty of high praise.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
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  • Flight tracking information obtained by Reuters stated that the aircraft was 32 years old and had previously been used as a passenger plane.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Vijay Tiwari, University of Maryland Imagine if three times as much grain could be obtained from the same amount of wheat plants as is currently possible, using the same amount of land, water and fertilizer.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Scrounged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrounged. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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