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Photograph by Tsering Bista and Beck Harlan Budget travel does not have to be what many of us had the privilege of doing in our early 20s — staying in a hostel, scrounging for cheap eats or maybe even sleeping in a train station.
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Amelia Edelman, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Amelia Edelman, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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“Scrounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrounge. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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