scraping
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And this time, salvaging draws and scraping a point isn’t an option.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
I mean, people have been scraping the whole web since the first search engine.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
"If you have ever stuck ur gum onto these walls, we have beef," one employee wrote alongside a video of her scraping pieces of gum off the walls during her shift.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Now software stocks are scraping themselves off the floor—but are still behind the curve as big investors stick with what has worked.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
This time the question was gruffer, like gravel scraping along rusted metal.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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
The samples gathered in 1984 included locks of Mary's hair and nail scrapings.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 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 pile of leaves and stalks that could be chopped up and mixed with the scrapings from a chicken coop and some old, spent coffee grounds.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
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
