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What starts as a decadent feast on the top level is nibbled away en route, until those in the lower depths of the building are scrounging for scraps and licking empty dishes.
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A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
Bots scrounging for tickets for resellers haven’t helped.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 13 Sep. 2024
Who scrounged to build her home and start a small business, struggled to meet a payroll and was forced to deal with clueless bureaucrats.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
Those still in the dark were scrounging for ice – a commodity hard to come by – to salvage the food in their refrigerators.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
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A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
Bots scrounging for tickets for resellers haven’t helped.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 13 Sep. 2024
Who scrounged to build her home and start a small business, struggled to meet a payroll and was forced to deal with clueless bureaucrats.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
Those still in the dark were scrounging for ice – a commodity hard to come by – to salvage the food in their refrigerators.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
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“Scrounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrounge. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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