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"Given the public interest, I would have expected to be informed rather than having to rummage through the council’s lengthy statement of accounts," she said.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

General warrants and writs of assistance enraged the colonies precisely because they allowed British officials to rummage through homes and businesses without individualized suspicion.

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

Its flashing lights and internet connectivity foretell a future in which kids won’t rummage around in the toy box at all, opting instead for more and more screen time.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

The Dominican nuns who run the kitchen prepare food for about 80 elderly or destitute people -- growing numbers of Cubans are forced to rummage through garbage bins for food -- each day.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

She’s getting organized for the festival’s rummage sale.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Deiri Fayyad rummages through dustbins in the Lebanese capital Beirut in search of plastics and other discarded materials to be recycled.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023

It remains a vehicle for pain and sorrow, a ballad from a forgotten world, a book that rummages around in the marrow of things.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

An hour in, the setup is still going on as Rom rummages through old photographs, putting together connections the audience has never been privy to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

He rummages through his stash of salvaged parts in the garden shed and locates a pair of replacements.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

She rummages in her purse and draws out a sheaf of bills, rolls them up and offers them to the men.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

After taking a job at the Conference Board, a business research organization, he rummaged through libraries to unearth measures of railcar freight loading and trends in short staple cotton prices since the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

She rummaged around for a second and suggested a triangle with an exclamation point in it, which would signal a bit of excitement but clear danger too.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025

His tools sprawled across the table and onto the floor, as though rummaged through by a band of wood rats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

It has previously emerged that the weapon had been discovered by a man who often rummaged through the grocery store’s refuse to gather recyclable items.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024

She followed him as he rummaged in the fridge and found himself a beer and a leftover grilled pork chop.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

At the warehouse in Bangkok's Nonthaburi suburb, the sound of people rummaging through products and plastic crates clattering against shopping carts echoes through the building.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Chatrie asks whether the Constitution still remembers that lesson once the rummaging happens through data instead of drawers.

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

I’ve always been leery of short-term rentals, and my friends’ recent experience is further proof that rummaging through an online grab bag of properties isn’t for me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

A new study found the masked mammals known for rummaging rubbish bins for easy food, are evolving and getting comfortable around humans.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Termites could be heard rummaging under the rotten leaves.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah