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Recent Examples of scrounged
He was wrapped in a jute sack, and someone else scrounged up some clean straw bedding.
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Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
Sean McIndoe scrounged up three positive thoughts for 16 hopeless teams.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
But the problem has been the opposite, and CPW has instead scrounged to find other sources of money to pay the claims.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026
Jane borrowed from friends and scrounged to hire a lawyer in Connecticut.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
Enough though Willis has only started six NFL games, and threw all of 35 passes last season (and 155 in his NFL career), the offer Miami scrounged up enough cap space to make is a reflection of Ross’ commitment transforming this franchise, and spending whatever that takes.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
It was reported that Costner, who had scrounged up some seed financing to start making his Horizon films, wanted to spend no more than a week on the Yellowstone set for the final episodes.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
Sean McIndoe scrounged up three positive thoughts for 16 hopeless teams.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
But the problem has been the opposite, and CPW has instead scrounged to find other sources of money to pay the claims.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026
Jane borrowed from friends and scrounged to hire a lawyer in Connecticut.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
Enough though Willis has only started six NFL games, and threw all of 35 passes last season (and 155 in his NFL career), the offer Miami scrounged up enough cap space to make is a reflection of Ross’ commitment transforming this franchise, and spending whatever that takes.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
It was reported that Costner, who had scrounged up some seed financing to start making his Horizon films, wanted to spend no more than a week on the Yellowstone set for the final episodes.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrounged
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Bermudez earned her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and has been a member of the state bar since 2005.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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Zuhn earned All-SEC honors each of the past two seasons and shared the 2025 SEC Jacobs Blocking Trophy (top blocker in the SEC) with Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor.—
Sam Warren,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Business Insider previously obtained an internal document that described damage to one data center knocking 14 EC2 cloud server racks offline, in addition to impacting five other server racks.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
1 May 2026
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The next day, Abugharbieh drove to the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa and stopped along the bridge, according to location data obtained through a search warrant, the filing states.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
1 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Scrounged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrounged. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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