scoop
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"My own editors wouldn't let me publish a scoop based on a single anonymous source, and here you are telling me I'm a spy," he recalls in his book.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
With borrowing costs for last month soaring to their second highest level, his room for manoeuvre is limited and he will not scoop his own Budget next month by announcing what is in it.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
A frenzy that began with a scoop from Pablo Torre’s podcast has ended meekly with a statement dumped amid a Cowboys implosion against the Giants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
We finished with vanilla ice cream, fragrant olive oil and a generous scoop of caviar.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
I added a precious scoop of coal to the stove.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Guests were shuttled to the Storm King Art Center, where we were greeted with Blank Street Coffee and lavender vanilla scoops from Laz’s Ice Cream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
They hover with a calculated theatricality: “Hat Rack” drops like a predatory spider; the shovels’ metal scoops are poised like guillotine blades; and “Bottle Rack” dives like a missile—an apt metaphor for their impact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
One of the biggest scoops Latifi reports is that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — widely known as the Mormon church — financially backs influencers.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
As TV producers jockeyed for scoops and access, prosecutors in the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, in Fort Worth, were faced with another task.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Three scoops each, and then hand off the shovel.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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More land led directly to more wealth and power as the country scooped up farmland, mineral resources and harbors.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
It scooped three prizes at the Bafta Film Awards in London in February.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Safety Jeremy Chinn scooped up the ball and returned it 43 yards to the 16.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Noposion, a Shenzhen-based pesticide giant, scooped up thousands of acres of land to grow blueberries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Quicker than he looked, Mr. Cranston scooped her up just before she landed.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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A growing cadre of volunteers increasingly helps with the next step, the actual harvest, scooping acorns off the ground and into bags and buckets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The push into advertising began as OpenAI rival Anthropic started gaining ground, scooping up enterprise customers and launching new models that delivered strong performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
An unknown company was scooping up Kentucky farmland, and few plots were more valuable than those owned by Delsia Bare and her mother, Ida Huddleston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
In recent weeks though the ocean around Okinawa has been mercifully cooled by typhoons scooping up deep-sea water as they tear across the Pacific.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
And that was where Grandma told Ernie and Genie they were going, right after they both finished picking peas, scooping poop.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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