scrape (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrape (out)
Verb
  • Wall Street is coming off a positive session, with stocks eking out a gain Monday even after President Donald Trump threatened a 30% tariff on the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1.
    Pia Singh,Sarah Min, CNBC, 14 July 2025
  • This location is home to both a rogue’s gallery of mutants and the titular stalkers who eke out a living scavenging artifacts.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 9 July 2025
Verb
  • Kalvin Phillips squeezes a pass through the gap and into Omari Hutchinson, taking three Forest players out of the game.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • Marlene alleged her son grabbed and started to squeeze her throat.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • But to survive, Carlos will have to change… and learn that dignity can matter more than winning.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 15 July 2025
  • SpaceX has shifted permanently Pacific Ocean spacecraft recoveries to avoid possible instances of pieces of Dragon's trunk surviving atmospheric reentry and crashing back to Earth, which were reported during some Atlantic Ocean and Gulf returns.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • The drier conditions are expected to last through Friday before more rain is in the weekend forecast.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • Each filter lasts up to 1000 uses and is easy to throw into your hiking backpack for emergencies.
    Anne Taylor, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Warmer oceans and air mean more evaporation and more moisture in the atmosphere, which gets wrung out in the form of more intense rain or snow.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 14 July 2025
  • By late afternoon, some volunteer search crews began to regroup at the fire department, looking sweaty and wrung out.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Teams are afforded three two-way contracts per season.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2025
  • But training those drivers is expensive, Merrifield said, so colleges can’t necessarily afford to enroll more students.
    Natalie Yahr, jsonline.com, 19 July 2025
Verb
  • Or even how the sky and its painterly clouds seem to carry on and on in perpetuity.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 14 July 2025
  • Matlock worked with Iggy Pop and Johnny Thunders, while lifelong friends Jones and Cook attempted to carry on together as the Professionals, but struggled to find relevance in the MTV era.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2025
Verb
  • But there is still an opportunity to wrest a positive outcome from the current tumult.
    Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025
  • The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the linchpin of a new aid system that wrested distribution away from aid groups led by the U.N.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 July 2025
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“Scrape (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape%20%28out%29. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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