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as in climbed
to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling
the toddler scrambled up the stairs
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as in disrupted
to undo the proper order or arrangement of
scrambled the letters of the word
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Recent Examples of scrambled
On his YouTube show Monday, Smith described the chaos as guests scrambled to react without clear information.
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Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
It can be baked, air-fried, grilled, scrambled, or stir-fried.
—Olivia Tarantino, Martha Stewart, 28 Apr. 2026
But the rise of artificial intelligence has scrambled those calculations.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
In oral arguments at the Supreme Court Monday, most of the justices aimed pointed questions at both sides, with the usual conservative-liberal alignments scrambled like an egg.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
Melton took an awkward step and went down, then scrambled back to the base and was assisted off the field.
—Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2026
The Kings have only four goals in the series and have scored just once at even strength, so Smith scrambled his bottom two forward lines in practice Saturday in a search for speed in the offensive end.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Magadini jumped down a ledge and scrambled for cover while two of his friends stayed on the platform above trying to hide.
—Maria Verza, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
In April 2025, two Swedish fighter jets under NATO command were scrambled over the Baltic Sea to escort away a Russian reconnaissance plane that was approaching Polish airspace.
—CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
It can be baked, air-fried, grilled, scrambled, or stir-fried.
—Olivia Tarantino, Martha Stewart, 28 Apr. 2026
But the rise of artificial intelligence has scrambled those calculations.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
In oral arguments at the Supreme Court Monday, most of the justices aimed pointed questions at both sides, with the usual conservative-liberal alignments scrambled like an egg.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
Melton took an awkward step and went down, then scrambled back to the base and was assisted off the field.
—Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2026
The Kings have only four goals in the series and have scored just once at even strength, so Smith scrambled his bottom two forward lines in practice Saturday in a search for speed in the offensive end.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Magadini jumped down a ledge and scrambled for cover while two of his friends stayed on the platform above trying to hide.
—Maria Verza, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
In April 2025, two Swedish fighter jets under NATO command were scrambled over the Baltic Sea to escort away a Russian reconnaissance plane that was approaching Polish airspace.
—CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrambled
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Recovery rates climbed above 75 percent for several metals with slightly longer treatment times.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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His drive to eliminate Argentina’s chronic inflation has stalled, unemployment has climbed and the economy has contracted.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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The United Nations Development Programme reports that higher energy prices, disrupted food systems, and economic slowdowns triggered by the war could push up to thirty-two million people globally into poverty.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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Disasters threaten treatment The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration works with states to ensure that access to opioid use disorder medication isn't disrupted, Health and Human Services spokesperson Emily Hilliard said.—
Andrew Jones,
NPR,
28 Apr. 2026
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The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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At another point, a ranger waded through the mud of a mangrove forest and clambered into a mangrove to catch a bird for a blood sample, before doing the same trek in reverse to put it back.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
18 Jan. 2026
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The midseason trade felt relatively marginal compared to league-wide blockbusters that shuffled James Harden, Darius Garland and Anthony Davis.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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Growing up in a military family, Vogel shuffled between the East Coast and Europe every two to three years.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Valve’s upcoming Steam Controller (not to be confused with the 2015 controller of the same name) is the Steam maker’s effort to replace those controllers with something more explicitly designed for the PC, and for the upcoming Steam Machine.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Apr. 2026
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The venomous coral snake does not have the telltale arrowhead shape and can often be confused with the nonvenomous kingsnake.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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Blueberry plants also have a shallow root system that can be disturbed by planting annuals and is subject to competition from surrounding plants for water and nutrients.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 Apr. 2026
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The radiation from the flares reached Earth quickly and disturbed the ionosphere, the upper atmospheric layer that carries many radio and navigation signals.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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The experiences are jumbled in my mind, and the Stations become a story told over many single-frame images, just like any comic book.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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But there are just a half-dozen or so teams to have jumbled their top three spots in the order as much as the Padres and/or used six players at any spot.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Scrambled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrambled. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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