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scrape

noun as in bad or embarrassing situation

verb as in scratch, remove outer layer

verb as in be very frugal

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With a pulverized sample from scraping the inner walls of the vase, the team combined numerous analytical techniques for the first time to uncover what the mug last held.

At benches they brush and gently scrape dust from fossilized bone, with the gentle dexterity of dentists cleaning Jurassic-era teeth.

She undermined the basic argument that content creators have made against AI firms: that the process of feeding their AI models data indiscriminately “scraped” from the internet inevitably involves using copyrighted content without permission.

Im scraped together low-value land in a backwater known for its seedy motels and opened the theme park — a decision his friends disparaged.

They scraped through more debris, eventually finding a bathroom sink faucet.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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