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Recent Examples of scab
Pain and itching should begin to subside as the scabs from shingles blisters heal, generally resolving by about one month to five weeks from your first symptoms.
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Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2025
Or will a team as good as the Lakers re-open scabs that might not actually have healed.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2025
Your homemade baking soda spray can also be used as a treatment for other fungal diseases, like anthracnose, scab, botrytis, and black spot on roses.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2025
When allergies affect feline skin, symptoms include scratching at their face and ears, scabs on their skin and fur loss.
—Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2025
Or will a team as good as the Lakers re-open scabs that might not actually have healed.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2025
Your homemade baking soda spray can also be used as a treatment for other fungal diseases, like anthracnose, scab, botrytis, and black spot on roses.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2025
When allergies affect feline skin, symptoms include scratching at their face and ears, scabs on their skin and fur loss.
—Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
Noun
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Alyn, much like Spiranac, gets her share of social media scoundrels in her mentions.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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The series, to be teased at Disney’s Upfronts presentation on Tuesday, portrays women helping women to leave their cheating, scoundrel husbands.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2025
Noun
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What is interesting about the rogue visit is that the team is owned by fiercely anti-Trump John Henry, who also owns the fiercely anti-Trump Boston Globe, which is run by his fiercely anti-Trump wife, Linda Pizzuti.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
12 July 2025
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While Superman clearly has a wide rogues gallery filled with powerful villains, many consider Lex Luthor to be his ultimate arch-nemesis.—
Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Since then, he’s been a haunted wretch of a character: stoned, sullen, stuck with recurring visions of shooting his wife and himself.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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Matthias Schoenaerts signed on as the film's villain, Krem of the Yellow Hills, in September 2024, per Deadline, and a few months later, Jason Momoa confirmed his casting as the violent intergalactic bounty hunter, Lobo.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
12 July 2025
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But just to use an example, Force Awakens sets up Snoke as the big villain of the new trilogy, with a mysterious backstory.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
12 July 2025
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Set in the oil boomtowns of West Texas, ‘Landman’ uses Thornton’s character, crisis manager Tommy Norris, as the anchor for an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling an industry that shapes the world’s climate, economy, and politics.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
16 May 2025
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But watching a group of roughnecks on a rig in grubby overalls moving huge, long steel pipes, Dugan's smile begins to fade to a smirk.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Trump represents a father figure who is returning to the house, and there are various people living in it who are freeloaders and grifters and lowlifes abusing the kingdom.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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The groper was a lowlife—a deranged doctor, bent on harvesting astronaut semen for pernicious procreative ends.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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For a browner crust, broil the scamp for 1-2 minutes before serving.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Jan. 2025
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There was a brief flurry of excitement this week when Coritiba, a club in the Brazilian second division, announced that Neymar would be signing for them, but that turned out to be the result of some mischievous scamps who hacked their website.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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And now, without further ado, an ode to the rogues and rascals who make being hot and doing crimes in this galaxy so fun to watch.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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Something tells me those wary rascals spotted us and gave us the slip.—
Percy Brown,
Outdoor Life,
12 June 2025
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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