rummage
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We also watched a nurse rummage through a medical waste disposal box without sterile gloves.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 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
To our benefit, Lewis and Tolkien weren’t content to rummage around for these ideals in dust-covered parchment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
He’d rummage for wood scraps behind a neighborhood factory with his brother and make toy cars and bows from reeds they collected.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
Everyday we walk with the crowd, occasionally stopping in deserted villages to rummage for food.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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