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scrape

[skrayp] / skreɪp /






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State Street uses artificial intelligence to help scrape consumer prices from online sources, providing more frequent and recent looks at inflation data than measurements from the government, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Some thicker icebergs that break from tidewater glaciers without floating ice shelf extensions can scrape along the seabed or become grounded inside a fjord.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Mr. Futterman’s focus on superstars will leave some readers wishing he’d chronicled the occasional journeyman trying to scrape out wins and paychecks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

With the scrape Debbie and Judith find themselves in, a beach holiday is out of the question.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

She’d dabbed the prints with a damp cloth and, while the emulsion was wet, used the tip of a needle to scrape away the image, leaving a pin-thin white line.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

Providers applied skin substitutes to minor scrapes and bruises—at an average cost of $121,501 per patient and $230,103 for those treated at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 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

I sat on the sofa, stuck my legs out in front of me, and studied the scabs on my shins, the brown scars of countless wounds and scrapes.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Promoters scraped out regional fiefdoms where transient performers would fight for a spell before jumping ship in search of better deals.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

A curdled mug of nostalgia for adult-size puppets leading children around candy-hued soundstage sets, “Buddy” is a horror comedy scraped from the fuzzy lining of low-rent kiddie programming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

“But we’ve barely scraped the surface in terms of understanding.”

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

As we walk through the passages and chambers of the castle’s upper floors, the legend of Anne the dark lady is scraped back in five stages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Chairs scraped in the upstairs kitchen, voices were raised, and footfalls ran my way.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

They’re still part of the continuing battle to stop bots from posting spam, overwhelming websites and scraping content without permission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Quinta Brunson’s scraping schoolteacher Janine Teagues in “Abbott Elementary” hopes to grow into the roles modeled by classroom veterans before rent and bills push her out of the profession.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Many creators oppose AI because it could replace humans and was built using the unauthorized scraping of creative works used to train generative AI video and image models.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Kim Sun-hee, 70, described them as "like scraping cement, or even ghost-like noises. It was really frightening".

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

I heard the scraping of stools against the floorboards.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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