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As mines across the region shuttered, he turned to scraping grills at a Hardee’s, then cleaning office buildings at night, then stocking shelves and changing tires at a Walmart in Arkansas.

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He grew up scraping icy turns at Hunter Mountain in upstate New York, wearing gaiters on his boots—and jeans.

Looking up, we discover that these are the naked trunks of trees, their reedy, leafless tops scraping against a gray sky.

Inside the farmhouse, a dog was barking and scraping at the front door.

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Using machine learning and web scraping tools to consume information—already par for the course for some funds operating in the daytime—could become even more important.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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