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At once straight-faced, sacrilegious and scatological, “Team America” needed nine tries to eke past the MPAA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

I still think Scotland will eke out the win, but how will Steve Clarke go about it?

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Kudryashev’s short stint last year in the vanguard of Russia’s army offers a glimpse of the tactics that Russia is employing to eke out battlefield advances in Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

But Wall Street analysts expect the company to eke out profit growth of 1% in 2026.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

They shot rabbits and peeled bark for soup to eke out their scarce provisions.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

Lori, who might be every bit as technically gifted as Julian, ekes out a living serving egg rolls in a food truck while sharing a walk-up loft with three other struggling painters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Oumar Cisse used to lead tours of Djenne, an ancient, fabled city in central Mali known for its towering mud-brick mosque, but he now ekes out a living driving an old motorcycle taxi in Bamako.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Today the 70-year-old struggles with respiratory illness and ekes out a living ferrying people and parcels on his scooter.

From Reuters ● Dec. 16, 2022

Instead of bleating big themes, it ekes feeling from repression in telling the story of a character who does the same.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022

They rested on a bench on one of those small triangles of breathing space which the city ekes out now and then; mill ends of land parcels.

From Gaslight Sonatas by Hurst, Fannie

The Dodgers eked across a run in the third inning on a Freddie Freeman groundout with runners on second and third.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

The millennial sex therapist eked out a narrow win in the Democratic primary election in March and will advance to a runoff with the second-place finisher, sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia, on Tuesday.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

While two— Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Nova Scotia —have eked out gains of less than 1%, others are roaring ahead.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

Yields on the 10-year index-linked gilts have climbed as much as 19 basis points since a special election in the Gorton and Denton constituency, in which the Green Party eked out a victory.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026

By 4 A.M., when the stand closes, he has eked out 30 pesos, or S3.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Hoan worked from the same slab of concrete for a decade, eking out a modest living hawking colourful bouquets.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Hurricanes missed yet another kick in the third quarter before eking out a 10-3 lead with under two minutes to play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

Hustler - Kenyan parlance for someone eking out a living against the odds - helped portray him as someone who would prioritise the needs of the struggling folk.

From BBC ● May 13, 2025

But maybe he is just eking out life with no end game.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2025

The cathedral was dark now, the only illumination a weird orange glow eking through the stained-glass windows.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs