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Recent Examples of scrounge
Migrants often scrounge up the money from relatives in the U.S. or by becoming indebted to cartels.
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Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Graham and his nonprofit worked tirelessly to improve Liberia’s housing, creating programs to put young men to work in construction, scrounging for funding to promote Black home ownership.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
The weekend before that, another franchise property topped the box office, but Den of Thieves 2: Pantera was only able to scrounge up $15.5 million in its premiere run.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2025
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.
—Amelia Edelman, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Graham and his nonprofit worked tirelessly to improve Liberia’s housing, creating programs to put young men to work in construction, scrounging for funding to promote Black home ownership.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
The weekend before that, another franchise property topped the box office, but Den of Thieves 2: Pantera was only able to scrounge up $15.5 million in its premiere run.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2025
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.
—Amelia Edelman, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Scrounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrounge. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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