scrounge

While some landlords offer a short grace period for renters to scrounge together enough cash, fintech companies are offering a different deal: split your rent into installments throughout the month.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026

Presumably the gambit is to catch Mr. Powell for lying to Congress regarding the office renovations or scrounge for details in search of some other so far undetected offense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

Now, if only Clark could scrounge up enough cash to buy season tickets for loved ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024

"They occasionally did try and slip out up to the production office and see if they could scrounge some cooked chicken rather than having to cook it themselves," Huffam revealed.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024

I pushed myself up off the floor, helping them gather up the clothes and supplies we’d managed to scrounge up.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

The art-house world, which depends on older audiences and scrounges for financial scraps, has been particularly hard-hit.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

The revenue agency, as it scrounges for new recruits, could run into the type of problem the Border Patrol faced when it went on a spending and hiring spree 15 years ago.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

And so Silverio dismisses Luis as little more than “an entertainer, an opinion peddler” who scrounges for likes on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

Abu Malek said he scrounges the items needed for the inflatables.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2020

Ratty scrounges a prime rope fra' somewheers, an' we creeps out after nightfall.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various

Many of the planes are museum pieces, kept flying with scrounged parts and pluck, and stand little chance against modern warplanes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

He scrounged together stopgap university funding and outside donations to keep the operation running “on fumes,” vowing “to go down swinging.”

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025

They scrounged for clean blankets, saline and other emergency medical supplies in the dusty and mud-caked camp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025

When they emerged from their hiding places in the aftermath of the first day and scrounged for food in the following years of darkness, the world was fundamentally changed.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024

We used one tarp as our roof, tying its four corners to the tops of the tent pole branches with ropes the boys had scrounged up.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

In Tawila, hundreds of people have huddled together in makeshift tents in a vast desert expanse, scrounging together what they can to prepare food for their families, AFP video shows.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

Analysts are scrounging for any signal about the economy’s trajectory this month because the government shutdown has turned off the spigot of official government data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Friends, my family included, have been scrounging for fans, dehumidifiers, and sump pumps to lend to friends affected by the flood.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024

Who is the woman we meet at the beginning of “Drift,” the homeless, scrounging figure you play?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

Adam was trying to arrange the letter’s information in his mind, and it was as restless as a setting hen scrounging into the nest.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck