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scraping

[skrey-ping] / ˈskreɪ pɪŋ /






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Since these systems can’t access private accounts or sites that block scraping, does that make private accounts meaningfully safer?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 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

Rank-and-file in the UK-based Netball Super League are scraping into five figures and often working second jobs, although full-time marquee players fare much better.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

They ate for a few minutes without talking, the only sounds the crunch of biting into bread and the scraping noise of forks against plates as they wound bites of spaghetti.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

And that’s why he has sought DNA testing of physical evidence recovered from the scene—fingernail scrapings, bloodstains, and hair—that could show that someone else committed the killing.

From Slate Jun. 26, 2025

More problems were found at a factory that Sun had acquired in Detroit, where the diabetes drug metformin was contaminated with metal scrapings.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2025

But at our earliest opportunity, humans also sought to profit from these substances: scrapings from a Neandertal's teeth show traces of toxins that held medicinal value, including the bases for aspirin and penicillin.

From Scientific American Oct. 1, 2023

A fish and chip shop owner is set to serve up his last scrapings more than 60 years after the business opened its doors.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2023

Loud bangings and scrapings were coming from behind the Dursleys’ boarded-up fireplace, which had a fake coal fire plugged in front of it.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling




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