scrabble
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Bruno Fernandes, perhaps the only United player to have done himself justice this season, pulled one back from the penalty spot after Casemiro was kicked during a frantic scrabble.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025
Lee wanted wealth and stability, not to scrabble around in obscurity hoping to beat impossibly long odds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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
Like my parents and many others I knew in the South Bronx, they scrabble to hang on and perhaps wonder if anyone sees or hears their distress.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
The monkey would scrabble around, trying to escape, and the sergeant would say, “OKAY, I GOT HIM. HE’S PINNED.”
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
He scrabbles over a few yards to try again.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
She scrabbles to find her reason for being.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023
But in one instance, a dog uses Halle Berry’s back as a springboard, then scrabbles up the wall to the second story and attacks a gunman on a balcony.
From Slate ● May 16, 2019
He scrabbles back, then starts sniffing at some bushes like there ain’t nothing unusual going on in the world.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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
"I had no idea how long it would take the officers to get there, so we scrabbled about for things to talk about," the 39-year-old says.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2022
Some people tried to lock the beasts out as they scrabbled at the door.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2021
He scrabbled with all four paws, found some purchase, and scarpered up the slope and away.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2021
She could not breathe; her fingers scrabbled at her skin, but there was nothing there to grab onto.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Europe’s scrabbling together of funds to put into the pot is important here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
In another clip, we see a man scrabbling in the roadway to gather up spilt flour.
From BBC ● Feb. 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
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
Nine squealed, scrabbling to stay on his feet.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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