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While some landlords offer a short grace period for renters to scrounge together enough cash, fintech companies are offering a different deal: split your rent into installments throughout the month.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026

Presumably the gambit is to catch Mr. Powell for lying to Congress regarding the office renovations or scrounge for details in search of some other so far undetected offense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

“It shouldn’t be. You shouldn’t scrounge to save money to go somewhere and be told you’ll be put on a waiting list. That should not happen, but it does.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

“It was absolutely horrendous. We were really struggling, having to scrounge around for masks and gloves,“ says Mandi Masters, a community midwife from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024

She was on a constant scrounge, her trunk searching ahead of her.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

And so Silverio dismisses Luis as little more than “an entertainer, an opinion peddler” who scrounges for likes on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

But tools can be misplaced, lost or destroyed, potentially leaving guns inoperable unless someone scrounges up a U.S.-supplied wrench.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

Abu Malek said he scrounges the items needed for the inflatables.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2020

Our hero actually chooses to stay very close to his family - he hides in his home’s unheated garage attic and scrounges for food in Dumpsters.

From Washington Times ● May 16, 2017

Ratty scrounges a prime rope fra' somewheers, an' we creeps out after nightfall.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various

He scrounged together stopgap university funding and outside donations to keep the operation running “on fumes,” vowing “to go down swinging.”

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025

His team scrounged up three, including a rental from actor Giovanni Ribisi, who has developed a reputation as a cinematographer and camera whisperer with a menagerie of restored relics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

They scrounged for clean blankets, saline and other emergency medical supplies in the dusty and mud-caked camp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025

Some folks started buying high-flow toilets from Canada; others scrounged for beloved older models in salvage yards.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025

I scrounged deep into the rubble of collapsed buildings, tunneling for coal bins.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

But then that moment passed and the Boston-bred comic was once again starting from square one scrounging for joke ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

In Tawila, hundreds of people have huddled together in makeshift tents in a vast desert expanse, scrounging together what they can to prepare food for their families, AFP video shows.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

Macron’s government is currently scrounging for tens-of-billions in cost savings as it tries to rein in the government’s budget deficit, which reached 5.8% of economic output last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

His insatiable appetite for dominance of both government and industry will always leave him scrounging for more.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025

Ralph was tired of skulking about, hiding in mittens and boots, scrounging glue-flavored seeds from fourth-grade mosaics, and eating sugar, which he had overheard children say rotted teeth.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary