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
“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
Now, if only Clark could scrounge up enough cash to buy season tickets for loved ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024
Whoever they were, they were rough, hardened men who looked like they’d been living in the jungle for a long time, eating what they could scrounge, sleeping on the ground.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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And so Silverio dismisses Luis as little more than “an entertainer, an opinion peddler” who scrounges for likes on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
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
As fuel prices rose, he gave up cooking with gas and instead scrounges for firewood.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022
Our hero actually chooses to stay very close to his family - he hides in his home’s unheated garage attic and scrounges for food in Dumpsters.
From Washington Times ● May 16, 2017
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
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
His team scrounged up three, including a rental from actor Giovanni Ribisi, who has developed a reputation as a cinematographer and camera whisperer with a menagerie of restored relics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
The men ran out of food, subsisting on what they scrounged up: vitamins pills and pancake mix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 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
The roommates kept a stewpot simmering perpetually on the stove, tossing in a scrounged vegetable when they had it or a scrap of meat when flush, and squabbling over spare potatoes.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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What was once one of the coolest secrets in Los Angeles has become a veritable ghost town, the vast empty spaces populated by howling coyotes and scrounging bears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Of late, investors scrounging for stocks have preferred junk —smaller companies with poor fundamentals and exorbitant valuations—over quality companies with healthy sales and earnings growth, solid balance sheets, and more attractive prices.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
Macron’s government is currently scrounging for tens-of-billions in cost savings as it tries to rein in the government’s budget deficit, which reached 5.8% of economic output last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Friends, my family included, have been scrounging for fans, dehumidifiers, and sump pumps to lend to friends affected by the flood.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
Others, maybe Beast Riders like me, are already scrounging there for bones, moldy fruit, anything.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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