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Recent Examples of scab
On numerous occasions, Union Pacific had brought in Chinese workers after white workers went on strike for better wages, leading the white miners to view their Chinese counterparts as low-wage scabs.
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
After the game, Alonso was asked about his nose, the scabs already starting the healing process.
—Tim Britton, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
Direct contact with the infectious rash, scabs or bodily fluids.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 15 July 2024
In both countries, if diagnosed, you will be asked to isolate from others until your symptoms are gone—which includes any scabs healing over.
—David Cox, WIRED, 27 July 2022
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
After the game, Alonso was asked about his nose, the scabs already starting the healing process.
—Tim Britton, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
Direct contact with the infectious rash, scabs or bodily fluids.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 15 July 2024
In both countries, if diagnosed, you will be asked to isolate from others until your symptoms are gone—which includes any scabs healing over.
—David Cox, WIRED, 27 July 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
Noun
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But what if rogue cops were paid off to help criminals with their exploits?—
Marco della Cava,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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Watch The Official Trailer Of 'Creature Commandos' By Rahul Majumdar Contributing Pop Culture Writer 0 Batman's rogues gallery is iconic.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Now that movie’s writer-director, Leigh Whannell, has returned to bring another classic fiend into the 21st century, with Poor Things scoundrel Christopher Abbott as a family man who starts feeling a little hairy after a full-moon encounter at his childhood home.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
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That this once-relevant scoundrel's fall from something like grace uplifts so many is a testament to the joy to be found in seeing a cocky operator get his overdue comeuppance.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The wretch in question has cut down one of the speaker’s spruce trees without his permission.—
Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2023
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Had this poor wretch been well supplied with friends and money the result, as in numerous other instances, might have been different.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Mar. 2023
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Also tossed in are picturesque but gratuitous use of famous tourist landmarks as background, near-superheroic training montages, credible intimate character dynamics, a ruthless villain (Johan Heldenbergh as Vanaken) and action that in the home stretch goes absurdly over-the-top.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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And though Young and (especially) the perpetrators of the massacre are clearly the villains of the piece, their past history at least partly explains their choices.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2025
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In 1989, Panguna shuttered, and its roughnecks fled from Arawa.—
Sean Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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The startled roughnecks fled as six tons of four-inch drilling pipe came shooting up out of the ground.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
12 Jan. 2024
Noun
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Ever since 2008’s Taken opened up a surprisingly durable late-career reinvention for Liam Neeson as a taciturn action star of tough-guy dad thrillers, frequently dispatching lowlifes who mess with his family, it’s become the norm to expect more of the same.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Oct. 2024
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The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a lowlife and talentless hack, who has long been widely discredited, knew that, but chose to ignore it.—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Oct. 2024
Noun
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For a browner crust, broil the scamp for 1-2 minutes before serving.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Jan. 2025
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There was a brief flurry of excitement this week when Coritiba, a club in the Brazilian second division, announced that Neymar would be signing for them, but that turned out to be the result of some mischievous scamps who hacked their website.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
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Orange cats have earned an online reputation for being chaotic, energetic rascals.—
Gayoung Lee,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Dec. 2024
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Eventually, Sergei — now going by Kraven — begins knocking off a growing list of poachers, corporate rascals and international kingpins.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
5 Dec. 2024
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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