scavenge

The damage from Wendy’s infection meant she would never have been able to hunt or scavenge again and would instead require a soft food diet for the rest of her life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

Cougars, however, rarely scavenge from other carnivores and are skilled hunters on their own, leaving scientists uncertain about what truly shapes their interactions with wolves.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026

When they aren’t thieving, bald eagles also scavenge from roadkill or help themselves to free food found in human garbage or at the town landfill.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

Lucky Strike organized scavenge parties to take care of the dead, burning them or burying them according to their rituals, and making the place safe from disease.

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

A couple scavenges through recycling bins, pulling out plastic water bottles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

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

Under the floorboards of her closet, Smith conceals “glittering refuse I had scavenged from trash bins, fragments of costume jewelry, rosary beads,” along with a blue toothbrush she’s invested with magical powers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

What the scientists are not able to prove conclusively is whether this particular, unfortunate terror bird was killed in the attack, or if the caiman scavenged its remains.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025

A Wyoming archaeological site where people killed or scavenged a Columbian mammoth nearly 13,000 years ago has produced yet another discovery that sheds light on the life of these early inhabitants of North America.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

I scattered a handful of sunflower seeds thirty paces down the drive to draw the birds and then I sat down on the steps on a ratty old cushion I’d scavenged from the trunk room.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

A video circulating on social media shows a man expelling a soldier and another official from his home after finding them scavenging around.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

The first dogs were descendants of grey wolves that lingered around human camps at the end of the Ice Age, scavenging leftovers and slowly becoming tamer.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

They risk being killed but may benefit by scavenging from dominant predators.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026

When I’m with Ben I eat at regular times because he does, I eat regular things, but when I’m alone I indulge In junk food and scavenging, my old, singular ways.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood