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
One visitor quipped "someone's been playing scrabble by the look of it".
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
Don’t just rely on your phone’s memory; you might not be the one making the phone call and it saves time not to have to scrabble around.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
"If they leave, either the jobs disappear entirely, or factories scrabble to receive orders from footloose buying agents who care only about cheap labour and do not worry about factory conditions," Bowman told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2023
We scrabble around in the nearby trees till we’ve found some sticks.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
When that happens, rather than tell her friends how she feels, she scrabbles around for extra money.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
At the novel’s outset, Ezra scrabbles through his world with honest hunger and understandable, if sometimes pedantic, disdain for those with more than him.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 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
In the meantime, Queenie breaks free and scrabbles up the hill.
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
Swiss lawmakers have since scrabbled together six counterproposals.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Her rivals cantered on as she scrabbled on the floor.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2022
Self-made billionaires, Duan and Shum included, scrabbled to the top, greasing palms along the way.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021
Without waiting for the right moment—for when would a better moment come?—she scrabbled at the door latch.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Imagine combat choreographed by ants, swarms of elbows and legs scrabbling to emerge victorious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Europe’s scrabbling together of funds to put into the pot is important here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
Bombaa also complains about how ordinary Nairobians, often scrabbling to make a living, have to pay to enter some of their city’s most beautiful locations such as the arboretum or Karura forest.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
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
A few scrabbling sounds drifted down from above, scraping and tearing.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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