scattering
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Someone had sent her a disturbing video showing two baby chimpanzees scuttering across a squalid dirt floor strewn with toppled furniture.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022
The idea came to Ms. French one evening when she saw a strange black shape scuttering across her kitchen counter and could not, at first, convince her partner that it was real.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2012
Golly, Liverpool want Wolfswinkel too but given their record of turning prolific Utrecht strikers into scuttering midfield mules, that may not be the best move for the 21-year-old.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2011
But last week, just as the deliberate arm of law at last reached for them, there were wild squeals of outrage and the sound of scuttering feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blackberry came to meet him, scuttering down the further bank.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing scattering
Physics - Introductory
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