scrape
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I considered whipping the miso into cold butter, making a compound butter to scrape over oven-hot sourdough before adding tomato slices and crystalline hunks of salt.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Perhaps Thursday’s news from Trump Media didn’t send its shares soaring because financial data providers and their clients have already figured out how to scrape the information they want off the Truth Social website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
And even if he manages to scrape by in committee, Blanche can afford to lose only three Republican votes in the Senate.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2026
Would a win over Haiti followed by two defeats be acclaimed as a riotous success if it's enough to scrape into the knockouts as one of the best third-placed teams?
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
When I open the door to Tatarska Street, I can hear the scrape of the shovel from the bedroom.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Instead of using soap or chemicals, it physically scrapes away dirt and marks from surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2026
Simmons praised DoorDash for offering her the “flexibility” that allows her to take care of her sick husband and family as she scrapes for “every extra dollar.”
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
How can they keep a low enough profile so that the authorities won’t be summoned when her brother Junior is getting into scrapes at school?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Wylie tells me when a painting's not working, she scrapes the paint off.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Lee is a traditionalist, like many in Levittown, and no fan of charter schools or anything else that scrapes money away from school systems.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Thrive was founded in 2009 with $5 million scraped together from friends and family and is based in Manhattan’s Kushner-owned Puck Building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Kimberella moved with the help of a muscular foot and scraped food from the seafloor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
A bad year in your 30s was a scraped knee.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Flod scraped together tomato cages, chicken wire, paper, glue and pink house paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Only three days later they met their first ice, large chunks called growlers that scraped and rumbled past the sides of the ship.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
"It takes weeks and weeks of bumping into things, scraping along the side of things, before you can work out the best way to steer it."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Last week, the government’s own energy statisticians published an explainer on the term, because, at one of America’s most important oil hubs, prices now suggest the tanks may already be scraping bottom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
A key survey of American consumers is scraping bottom, showing they’ve never felt this lousy about the economy, even at the height of recessions or when the Covid pandemic raged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
In revisiting his cherished alien subgenre for the fourth time with “Disclosure Day,” Spielberg returns to where his career started, scraping away the classic marks of extraterrestrial intrigue and replacing them with human counterpoints.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
A nearly silent scraping, but there’s nothing wrong with our hearing.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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