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scrambling

verb as in race; get into position clumsily

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At least 50 shipping containers slipped off a vessel at the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday morning, leaving officials scrambling to determine what happened.

But as superheroes have faltered, studios are scrambling to figure out what’s next.

In California, some people have described scrambling in recent weeks to get the previously available version of the vaccine, being unable to, and then getting COVID.

Back in September 2015, I was present when Hungary's first fence was erected along the border with Serbia, and witnessed hundreds of people scrambling to cross into the EU before they could be shut out.

From BBC

Moscow has regularly denied scrambling the satellite-based systems, which are used to determine a plane's location.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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