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Judge Lopez has instructed the bankruptcy trustee in this case, Christopher Murray, to scrounge up a more lucrative offer for the site in the next 30 days.
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Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, storm survivors were still scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter three days after Helene first made landfall in Florida.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
Bots scrounging for tickets for resellers haven’t helped.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 13 Sep. 2024
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Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, storm survivors were still scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter three days after Helene first made landfall in Florida.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
Bots scrounging for tickets for resellers haven’t helped.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 13 Sep. 2024
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“Scrounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrounge. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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