scrape

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

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

The three scrape by on the $90 Boonma receives each month for her work, her parents’ combined $50 old-age allowance from the government and money sent by her own adult son and daughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The manager wouldn't give me a new name tag unless I paid for it, so I had to peel off the last four stickers and scrape off all the gum.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

"As a stand-alone piece of theatre, The Mad King scrapes through," he wrote.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

Once infected, the flea spreads the disease to humans when flea feces is rubbed into cuts or scrapes on the skin or the eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

“It’s all the rage,” Mami says as she scrapes my plate clean and stacks it on hers.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

One human rights concern raised in recent years is that AI can display biases against particular groups if trained on large datasets scraped from the internet which can include racist, sexist and other undesirable material.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

By that point, USC’s offense had piled up almost 200 yards, while Louisiana had scraped together just 18.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, her characters scraped together jobs to support passion projects that were overwrought and beyond their grasp.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

She scraped the scales from a fish with long, elegant fingers.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Search engines and AI rely on web scraping and frequency of mentions, and the sheer volume of his fake posts caused AI to mistakenly identify him as an NFL wide receiver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

After an OpenAI researcher informed Brockman about a hack to get around the New York Times paywall when scraping content, Brockman responded, “ah nice,” according to the filing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

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

“Oh, really? I didn’t see you,” she said, her two long black braids scraping her chest.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce