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scoop

[skoop] / skup /
NOUN
utensil, tool for shovelling
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NOUN
previously secret information that is suddenly public
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A scoop of popcorn is now $7, up from $6.50.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

You might try to scoop up a bargain or avoid certain headaches by purchasing a newly constructed house.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Still, people seem to be rushing to scoop these preorders up, despite the insistence by some that preorders should be avoided given the disastrous launches of games like “Cyberpunk 2077” and “No Man’s Sky.”

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

It is a remarkable scoop as London City Lionesses - an independent women's football club - continue to raise eyebrows in the transfer market.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

I unzip my sample collection bag and scoop straws into the bag until I have enough to filter water for our entire lives.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Khadeeja Safdar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she focuses on high-impact scoops and investigations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Once they’ve reached their capacity of about 20,000 pounds, a boat hauls everything to the harbor and a crane scoops it out in nets.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 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

One, two scoops, and I knot the bag.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

Microsoft has steadily scooped up specialized, midsized cyber companies over the past decade, while Google made the largest acquisition in its history by purchasing AI cloud and security platform Wiz earlier this year.

From MarketWatch Aug. 2, 2026

Sherwin-Williams SHW 3.07%increase; up pointing triangle raised its outlook for the year after logging higher profit and sales in the second quarter, as the company scooped up market share and raised prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Instead, 43-year-old tech scion David Ellison — with help from his billionaire father, Oracle software co-founder Larry Ellison — scooped up the prize for a staggering $111 billion.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Serve piled onto tostadas, scooped up with tortilla chips or spooned over rice.

From Salon Jun. 9, 2026

The Russian agents scooped up the box, drove Jacob to a police station, and dragged him into a room where three men in suits were waiting to question him.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

She remembers scooping up what remained of her artwork and watching it sift through her fingers, the porcelain broken and changed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Two Canadair planes joined the battle on Monday, scooping up water from the River Seine to douse the flames.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

Before it went public last week, Bending Spoons spent the past few years scooping up the old companies behind forgotten software that millions of people still use every day, like AOL, Evernote and Vimeo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

A Euromillions winner who saved the life of a police officer just days before scooping the £1m jackpot has died in a suspected hit-and-run.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

“Candles—on the shelf over there,” said Alice, scooping up Lyra and the bottle and looking around for anything that would give them away, but there was too much to pick up.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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