as in degenerate
a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard
was often spotted in sordid places that reinforced a reputation as one of the city's most notorious rakes
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as in slope
the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon
the floor of the auditorium doesn't have much of a rake, so sightlines for spectators in the rear are not good
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as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
he raked repeatedly through his luggage, hoping that in one of the bags he would find his lost passport before his flight's departure
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Recent Examples of rake
Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2025
Strange items remain, damaged but recognizable: The teeth of a rake.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025
Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
The cat went berserk, grabbing with its front claws and raking with its rear, in the way all felines use their haunches to eviscerate prey.
—Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Use a rake to gather up stray stems and clean up the area.
—Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2025
Strange items remain, damaged but recognizable: The teeth of a rake.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
Dash Day had himself quite a time, raking the trap, drawing in the sand and playing with a golf ball while his dad posed for pictures with a trophy and a surfboard — and a check for $1.13 million.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
The cat went berserk, grabbing with its front claws and raking with its rear, in the way all felines use their haunches to eviscerate prey.
—Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rake
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For example, Baca Systems shared that before AI agents, customers who called the company with service questions (typically about a hardware issue) would wait an average of five to seven minutes while a human agent searched for relevant cases and analyzed technical documents.—
Aytekin Tank,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The Ducks are demanding more attention to detail from the offensive specialist, and getting it, but Zegras is still searching for a way to hang on to the parts of his game that once separated him.—
Chris Johnston,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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It has also been decided, unwisely, that Bridget has somehow lost the desire or perhaps the ability to ever comb her hair.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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Musk and his team, under Trump’s direction, have been entering government agencies, combing through books, and instructing civil servants to find ways to reduce government spending and cut out any dead weight.—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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That lab found trace amounts of the cocaine metabolite, norcocaine.—
Laura A. Bischoff,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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ZiPS, a popular player projection model found on FanGraphs, predicts Goldschmidt will hit .250/.325/.437 with 23 homers, 81 RBI, a 116 wRC+ and 2.2 WAR in 2025.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Most of the county’s other coastal lagoons also have been dredged in recent decades, though less frequently, to preserve wetlands habitats and for other environmental reasons.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Now, researchers in London have dated dozens of bones dredged from the river, creating a comprehensive database that has dispelled longstanding theories about why the river came to serve as the final resting place for so many people.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Doing so literally means signing his life away, as Mickey 1 (the OG version of his character) agrees to have his body scanned and his memories archived, so he can be replicated — and recycled — ad infinitum, every time an unlucky copy hits a snag.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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Speaking to local news outlet WREG, Memphis police said Cross entered the store with another woman, with the pair then using an old watch bar code battery to scan a number of items at a self-service machine for just $1 each.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Rake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rake. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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