as in struggle
a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective
it'll be a long scrabble to pull ourselves out of poverty
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as in to climb
to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling
we scrabbled up a sand dune to get a better view of the sea
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as in to fumble
to search for something blindly or uncertainly
he frantically scrabbled through the storage chest looking for the needed documents
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Recent Examples of scrabble
Oluwatosin Adeshokan, Quartz Africa, 8 Nov. 2019
Across the street from her, a kinetic scrabble of orange and blue runs the height of a five-story brick building like an electric charge.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
Relatively recently, humans were scrabbling in the dirt, and hunting for animals, and writing things on cave walls, or later, parchments.
—John Werner, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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In the early 90s, Nigeria’s central government recognized scrabble as a sport.
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There are other ethnic lines drawn among Gotham’s gangs, each scrabbling for a little bit more of the pie that Carmine used to keep mostly for himself.
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Considering UConn’s struggles shooting from long range in its losses, the importance of its best 3-point shooter can’t be overstated, especially when Fudd can add drives and pull-up midrangers when defenses chase her off the line.—
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Volpe immersed herself in research before making the film, accompanying nurses on hospital shifts to understand their daily struggles.—
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Similar shipments to the European Union have climbed even faster, reaching 12 million parcels a day last year.—
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Related Articles Around 11 p.m., Cosmo’s new editor Willa Bennett climbed atop the room’s central circular bar to introduce the evening’s performer, rapper JT, and offered incentive to stick around.—
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Messes: The Blue Jays are fumbling a star It’s been a tough few years for the Blue Jays and high-end baseball talent.—
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The Best Wireless Chargers to Refuel Your Phone (or Watch) Stop fumbling for cables in the dark.—
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The base was originally named in 1918 for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton, North Carolina, who was known for owning slaves and losing key Civil War battles that contributed to the Confederacy's downfall.—
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At the time, the entertainment giant continued to fight a high-profile legal battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over control of its special tax district that afforded the company special privileges in the state to control the land its sprawling theme parks sits on.—
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Already, the Trump administration has had to walk back major job cuts to departments, including scrambling to rehire hundreds of nuclear security workers as well as several Department of Agriculture workers who focus on the avian bird flu.—
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Standard communication channels like email or office phones may be compromised, leaving your organization scrambling.—
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As lethal injection drugs have become harder to obtain, states with the death penalty have looked to expand their methods to things like firing squads and nitrogen gas, which was first used in the U.S. in January 2024 in Alabama with the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith.—
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All of those energies are looking at the situation differently, and so nobody’s playing the same thing in those scenes.—
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The incident may have started as a fight inside a local McDonald’s restaurant, which then spilled out onto the street, according to a police source.—
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But that message was undermined by his company’s fight against TVC.—
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Spectators clambered atop rubble and wrecked vehicles to watch the handover, waving Palestinian and Hamas flags.—
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Shares slumped over the summer on concerns over weakness in its theme parks biz — then clambered back up in November on strong earnings results and streaming profits, and Disney’s three-year forecast for EPS growth.—
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“Scrabble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrabble. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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