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Or Root, who had to rummage around his garage to dig out his old captain's blazer.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Jouppi swore he had no idea; bush pilots do not rummage through their passengers’ bags.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

That’s why I find myself reaching for them whenever a dish needs a little herbal brightness without requiring me to rummage through half the spice cabinet.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Dominican nuns who run the kitchen prepare food for about 80 elderly or destitute people -- growing numbers of Cubans are forced to rummage through garbage bins for food -- each day.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

Mrs. Walter refused to rummage through Maggie’s personal things without her permission and sent Grinnell away: “If Dr. Kane wants his letters, let him ask for them himself.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Deiri Fayyad rummages through dustbins in the Lebanese capital Beirut in search of plastics and other discarded materials to be recycled.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023

When Alex, defying her mother and grandmother’s orders, rummages through the box, she finds an entire life that Maia has never shared with her.

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

He rummages through his stash of salvaged parts in the garden shed and locates a pair of replacements.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

He rummages through all the things only to almost stick with the exact outfit he arrived wearing, but calls up a dark denim jacket for the needed layer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

I squeeze my eyes shut and listen as Ma rummages in the box before snapping the tin shut.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

“It is more wild than I expected,” he said as his partner rummaged for coins in her purse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The sisters got creative and rummaged in thrift shops, looking for discarded treasure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

She rummaged around for a second and suggested a triangle with an exclamation point in it, which would signal a bit of excitement but clear danger too.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025

Towards the end of the patrol he described how hungry crew members rummaged for tins of food in hidden compartments inside the submarine.

From BBC ● May 12, 2025

Styx shuffled himself toward a different pile, rummaged for a moment and emerged with an ancient-looking Radio Flyer wagon.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

At the time, resale brought to mind old, dusty clothes in the back of a closet and rummaging through thrift store racks just to put on someone else’s shoes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

They were both rummaging for treasure at one of the junk stalls.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

In the garage, he begins rummaging through the shelves, looking for something that might pass as a blanket.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

At the warehouse in Bangkok's Nonthaburi suburb, the sound of people rummaging through products and plastic crates clattering against shopping carts echoes through the building.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Musical surrealism and attempts at finding what the future of sound might be ran, somewhat surprisingly, alongside another avenue being explored by classical composers in the 1920s: rummaging around in music’s attic.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall