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Recent Examples of scab
Look for improved cultivars that are resistant to fire blight and scab.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
Applying fungicide can reduce scab and its severity, improve grain weight and reduce mycotoxin contamination.
—Tom W. Allen, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
In more severe cases, the skin may crack, ooze, scab or become raw and extremely uncomfortable.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Eventually, those bumps blister, ooze fluid, and scab over.
—Alisa Hrustic, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
Applying fungicide can reduce scab and its severity, improve grain weight and reduce mycotoxin contamination.
—Tom W. Allen, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
In more severe cases, the skin may crack, ooze, scab or become raw and extremely uncomfortable.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Eventually, those bumps blister, ooze fluid, and scab over.
—Alisa Hrustic, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
Noun
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New Orleans has long been notorious for embracing such scoundrels, a reputation that isn’t exactly helped by the fact that, for many years, disgraced attorneys who lost their licenses in Louisiana and applied for readmission to the bar often got it.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Sure, the Oscar-winning makeup helps transform the actor into Cheney, but the voice and petulance are all Bale, whose conjuring of this scoundrel ought to trigger PTSD for anyone who survived the Dubya years.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Many ethicists focus on preventing worst-case AI scenarios, such as rogue models and mass unemployment, while ignoring deeper questions about how the technology might degrade our humanity or undermine our sense of purpose.—
Elias Wachtel,
The Atlantic,
25 Apr. 2026
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One of the main sticking points during the intense talks between Tehran and Washington centers on Iran’s claim that the rogue regime has a right to enrich and possess weapons-grade uranium, the material required to build an atomic bomb.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The first time, Julian’s children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) seemed like miserable, greedy wretches.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2026
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The elegant sets and lavish costume designs are stunning, as is Jacob Elordi's multi-faceted performance as the intelligent wretch stitched together from corpses.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
27 Dec. 2025
Noun
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In its earlier days, The Boys might have done something with how Nanjiani’s Eternals and Rogen’s The Green Hornet both underperformed, and the Kick-Ass movies in which Mintz-Plasse played a villain left little cultural footprint.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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Most of his videos, filmed in a local studio or sometimes on the streets of Charlotte, are high-quality shorts showing him in throes of battle with classic villains like Killer Croc or Bane.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Zeus did not approve of his daughter fooling around with this mortal roughneck hunter and put out a hit on Orion.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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Livestock ranchers, roughnecks and agriculture have had a storied past in the rural land surrounding what is now a long stretch of Interstate Highway 680.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Their search leads them to a local drug lord and a galaxy of lowlifes, all of whom are hiding something.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Mar. 2026
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First seen at a night-club table of menacing lowlifes, Ida, whose mother tongue is Brooklynese, suddenly switches to a heavy British accent and dispenses a torrent of highly literary sarcasms.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Lewis makes Allegra a horny scamp, and Olyphant’s Pete, the group ringleader, has a svelte savagery.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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The history of The Little Rascals dates back to the 1920s, when a series of short films called our Our Gang introduced audiences to lovable scamps like Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Porky.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Right now, the rascal in him slumbers, briefly glimpsed now and again behind dark shades.—
Emma Madden,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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