scavenge

The remaining residents live off vegetables they grow in their gardens, soups of boiled weeds and cans of food they scavenge from bombed-out, abandoned homes around this city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The study's findings suggest the birds are doing more than just tracking the hunters: they're using navigation and spatial memory techniques to scavenge with sophistication.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

Old World vultures scavenge more than their American sisters, and white-backed vultures is even considered an obligate scavenger, lacking the ability to kill its prey.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

Just metal cans and whatever dried goods we can scavenge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025

Once he and Pima took the first scavenge off, they’d have to come up with a plan.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

That same pigment in your skin also naturally scavenges free radicals in response to damaging environmental pollution from industrial sources and automobile exhaust fumes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023

Oxygen scavenges methane, so there was a rapid disappearance of methane; Earth lost that early methane greenhouse effect.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2023

The local artist scavenges twigs and bark and reassembles the tree scraps into objects that resemble parts of actual trees.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

Along with books, he scavenges for other memorabilia, like the “Swayze” news-trivia game mentioned in “The Hellfire Club.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2021

They are Vorticellæ; and every one of those bells, by the ciliary current on its rim, is scavenging the water - till a tadpole comes by and scavenges it. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

Mothers feed babies with scraps scavenged from trash cans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

Huge lorries dumping directly onto the ground amid a sea of waste, as birds scavenged.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

The LaPrele site in Converse County preserves the remains of a killed or scavenged sub-adult mammoth and an associated camp occupied during the time the animal was butchered almost 13,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

The most unexpected is composed of scavenged plastic grocery bags.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

When he couldn’t steal daikons, he scavenged through trash.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Zakhavko’s husband began scavenging for food in abandoned apartments early this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Maintaining their own body heat would have helped T. rex remain active while hunting or scavenging enough food to support such a metabolism, Eagle said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Some irregular food items such as chicken and pig were also detected in the samples, suggesting that wolves are also scavenging from human waste disposal sites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Just like when Swift releases new music and her lyrics are dissected for any hints about her personal life, her legion of fans around the world have been scavenging for clues to her nuptials.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

They spend the next two hours scavenging the Lincoln Building, top to bottom, for food and fuel.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner