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scram

[skram] / skræm /


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I go up onto the porch and my boys go up onto the porch and I tell the neighbor kid—Kyan, his name is—to scram.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2023

If a cop tells you to scram, “You can say, ‘It is my understanding I have every right to record this.

From Seattle Times May 21, 2021

Ferraro walked the same tightrope that tripped up Hillary Clinton when she wondered if she should wheel around in that debate and tell the creeping Donald Trump to scram.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2020

The future D.C. mayor was 16 years younger than Rutherford, who remembers her father, Joe, ordering him and his friends to scram when they played ball in a nearby field.

From Washington Post Jul. 28, 2015

But operators knew that the scram is only the first step in reaching what is known as cold shutdown.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The good news is they scrammed, leaving me and my bike alone.

From Forbes May 5, 2015

Good Night Ladies thereupon scrammed to San Francisco for a week, clicked, stayed five.

From Time Magazine Archive

Automatic systems would have "scrammed" the reactors, pushing control rods into the core and shutting them down.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one but Mai Thi had stood her ground beside Mrs. Sidman while all the rest of us scrammed across the room.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

All three of the scrammed reactors had emergency cooling systems.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Another image from the series shows a group of children "scramming" for coins tossed to them after a wedding in one of Dundee's churches.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2010

A giant lobby clock hangs above the scattered people, the crowds scramming either to something or away from it—I can’t tell.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

We are scramming through that crowd like mad, and we are in the clear.

From Hoiman and the Solar Circuit by Dewey, Gordon

I was confronted with the alternatives of scramming or calling him a liar.

From The Old Martians by Graham, Roger Phillips




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