scraped

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far away called the 1990s, young people scraped by with tiny salaries and tried to save for retirement in a newfangled self-directed system.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

I scraped the whole mixture into my mini blender with a splash of water and blitzed it into a deep orange paste the color of late autumn leaves or a very expensive velvet couch.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

"I scraped a finish in the second paper," she said.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

But AI had scraped her website’s content and used it to rank itself higher in search results; her company’s revenue had plummeted by about half and she’d had to let employees go.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

Then I put my gloves on and got a trowel and kind of scraped the chicken poop off the floor of the henhouse into a bucket and dumped it in the blackberry bushes.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones