scooping
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A growing cadre of volunteers increasingly helps with the next step, the actual harvest, scooping acorns off the ground and into bags and buckets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The rural-leaning, pizza-selling convenience-store giant is eating Domino’s lunch and scooping up rival chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The push into advertising began as OpenAI rival Anthropic started gaining ground, scooping up enterprise customers and launching new models that delivered strong performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Videos from the response on Saturday show helicopters scooping up large quantities of water before dropping it on affected areas.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
And they all went over to the tunnel entrance and began scooping out great chunks of juicy, golden-colored peach flesh.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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