scrabble
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Lee wanted wealth and stability, not to scrabble around in obscurity hoping to beat impossibly long odds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
Some people scrabble together their scant savings to make the payment or get the money from their relatives in the diaspora.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
“Imagine you have scrabble tiles that spell out ‘Powerball.’
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
The words recession and Europe, made from letters of a scrabble game, are seen in this illustration picture taken in Ljubljana, November 15, 2012.
From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2022
I go downstairs and scrabble around in the kitchen drawer for the card that Detective Riley left.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
After the game, City manager Pep Guardiola admitted he is still trying to find "balance" in his squad while talismanic striker Erling Haaland scrabbles for form.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
She scrabbles to find her reason for being.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023
So Pluto is doubly fitting for the doppelgänger who ascended from underground and scrabbles around on all fours.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2019
As his wife scrabbles with angry protesters and gripes about her compromised marriage, he is sequestered in the bathroom, represented only by a mordant song that his aide-de-camp sings on his behalf:
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
She scrabbles across the floor and leaps onto Walter, licking his face and wagging so hard she topples backward.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
As she scrabbled for a laser pointer in her large handbag, her coloratura was comically on point, though she was inaudible in her middle range during the cabaletta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
"Doctors scrabbled to do the most urgent of surgeries, portering, scrubbing the floors, working with one or two remaining nursing staff. Matrons were washing linen," one doctor wrote by email.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2020
But she scrabbled together not quite a dozen students and developed a curriculum that now includes assignments such as “What is a written or oral tradition your speakers have in their culture?”
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2019
A dog’s scrabbled paw prints, a bobcat at best.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018
“Sorry, Dill,” Lydia said as Dill scrabbled around on the floor to gather the pegs.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
"There just isn't enough guidance for businesses, we're scrabbling around in the dark trying to do our best," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Europe’s scrabbling together of funds to put into the pot is important here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
This is, though, where much of Europe has been for some time: scrabbling around for scraps from the Premier League’s table.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
When few other animals are out and about, wolverines are scrabbling up frozen slopes with their crampon-like claws and crunching through frozen bones of carrion dug out of snow.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
There he knelt and began scrabbling with one hand in the soft dirt.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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