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scraping

[skrey-ping] / ˈskreɪ pɪŋ /






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Search engines and AI rely on web scraping and frequency of mentions, and the sheer volume of his fake posts caused AI to mistakenly identify him as an NFL wide receiver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Top staff at OpenAI and Microsoft knew that scraping news websites to train their artificial intelligence models may eventually damage or even destroy those publications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Quinta Brunson’s scraping schoolteacher Janine Teagues in “Abbott Elementary” hopes to grow into the roles modeled by classroom veterans before rent and bills push her out of the profession.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Kim Sun-hee, 70, described them as "like scraping cement, or even ghost-like noises. It was really frightening".

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

“I had an uncle. A great-uncle. Saul. He lived down South, scraping by, like our people had to do in those days.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

And that’s why he has sought DNA testing of physical evidence recovered from the scene—fingernail scrapings, bloodstains, and hair—that could show that someone else committed the killing.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025

More problems were found at a factory that Sun had acquired in Detroit, where the diabetes drug metformin was contaminated with metal scrapings.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025

But at our earliest opportunity, humans also sought to profit from these substances: scrapings from a Neandertal's teeth show traces of toxins that held medicinal value, including the bases for aspirin and penicillin.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023

A fish and chip shop owner is set to serve up his last scrapings more than 60 years after the business opened its doors.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023

He taught little Flittman fearsome scrapings and at the end of the year gave him the piece called “Humoresque.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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