scraps
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Plus: English soccer giant Manchester City found guilty of sweeping financial breaches, and OpenAI scraps release of new AI model over safety concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The paper says campaigners are warning Burnham that voters will "punish him at the ballot box" if he scraps the pension safeguard.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Alas, “The Whisper Man” is merely a collection of defanged genre tropes and equally familiar character writing, tossing paltry scraps to its supporting cast in Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Nearby fields were littered with broken deckchairs, scraps of fiberglass insulation and pieces of wire fencing ripped apart by the fierce winds that struck the village and its surroundings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
There were scraps of paper on which he had written his evil ideas in an illegible scrawl, lying in messy piles on top of the copy of Nuptial Law he had taken away from Klaus.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
