scrounge
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While some landlords offer a short grace period for renters to scrounge together enough cash, fintech companies are offering a different deal: split your rent into installments throughout the month.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Presumably the gambit is to catch Mr. Powell for lying to Congress regarding the office renovations or scrounge for details in search of some other so far undetected offense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
The sport is a refuge for Claressa, who has a chaotic family life and often has to scrounge for food, and she bonds closely with her coach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
“It was absolutely horrendous. We were really struggling, having to scrounge around for masks and gloves,“ says Mandi Masters, a community midwife from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
“I don’t suppose we’ll be able to scrounge up some more by morning,” he said.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Broke and missing his passport but infused with a traveler’s spirit, Khalid scrounges for odd jobs — restaurant work, cleaning the marina, painting someone’s boat — to make enough money to fly back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
The revenue agency, as it scrounges for new recruits, could run into the type of problem the Border Patrol faced when it went on a spending and hiring spree 15 years ago.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
But tools can be misplaced, lost or destroyed, potentially leaving guns inoperable unless someone scrounges up a U.S.-supplied wrench.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
Abu Malek said he scrounges the items needed for the inflatables.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2020
Ratty scrounges a prime rope fra' somewheers, an' we creeps out after nightfall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various
Many of the planes are museum pieces, kept flying with scrounged parts and pluck, and stand little chance against modern warplanes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
He scrounged together stopgap university funding and outside donations to keep the operation running “on fumes,” vowing “to go down swinging.”
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025
In the end, the Sheriff’s Department said it scrounged up nearly 100 buses, borrowing from nearby counties, the state prison system and the local public transit system in case the winds shifted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
When they emerged from their hiding places in the aftermath of the first day and scrounged for food in the following years of darkness, the world was fundamentally changed.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
As he scrounged in Gilju, escape to China slipped from Shin’s mind.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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In Tawila, hundreds of people have huddled together in makeshift tents in a vast desert expanse, scrounging together what they can to prepare food for their families, AFP video shows.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
Analysts are scrounging for any signal about the economy’s trajectory this month because the government shutdown has turned off the spigot of official government data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Order in from Goop At this point, we’re kind of scrounging for dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
His insatiable appetite for dominance of both government and industry will always leave him scrounging for more.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025
“If I ever retire from scrounging, it will be on a Friday.”
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
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