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Recent Examples of scab
His skin has the greyish pallor of spoiled beef, dotted with scabs and open wounds.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Once the bleeding stops, scabs form, and the wound may look dark red to almost black.
—Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2025
After a bad reaction to a sketchy laser hair removal treatment some years ago, most lotions and body oils irritate my sensitive skin, leaving behind a trail of redness, scabs and discoloration.
—Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Over time, the blisters may rupture, ooze, and scab over as part of the healing process.
—Laura Schober, Health, 27 Dec. 2024
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Once the bleeding stops, scabs form, and the wound may look dark red to almost black.
—Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2025
After a bad reaction to a sketchy laser hair removal treatment some years ago, most lotions and body oils irritate my sensitive skin, leaving behind a trail of redness, scabs and discoloration.
—Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Over time, the blisters may rupture, ooze, and scab over as part of the healing process.
—Laura Schober, Health, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
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The sky is awash with radio-frequency interference (RFI), but thanks to two astronomers who tracked down a stray TV broadcast reflected off a passing airplane, there may be a new way to wipe out some of the rogue signals that plague our radio telescopes.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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And so the two women selfishly agree to share the rogue doubles, while Mickey 18 plots a coup.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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Giacomo Casanova, who lived from 1725 to 1798, was a lawyer, a writer, an adventurer, a gambler and a scoundrel who found himself on the wrong side of the law.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post,
20 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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The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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As Blake transforms into a swollen, oozing wretch who gnaws frantically on his own wounds, his family appears as glowing-eyed aliens, their words a jumble of indecipherable sounds.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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This shortcoming extends to its assortment of villains who, despite including celebrity appearances like AEW wrestler Samoa Joe, fail to leave a memorable impression beyond being yet another obstacle on the way to the end credits.—
Isaiah Colbert,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
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More news: Warner Bros Delays 'The Batman 2' For a Third Time One of Batman's biggest foes is Clayface, a villain who can mold his body into a multitude of devastating shapes.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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And the guys playing all of our roughnecks were the same.—
Mark Peikert,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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Landman, set in the oil fields of West Texas, is punctuated by extensive diatribes from Tommy about the oil industry’s importance, the tragic necessity of landmen and roughnecks, and the fallacy of placing society’s hope on renewable energy.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
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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
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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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With their heavy bodies, the rascals had ridden down the oak trees to crop the luscious acorns from the tree tips.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
13 Feb. 2025
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Till then, the always-in-hot-water antics of CIA attorney/reluctant spy Owen Hendricks (Centineo) keep us engaged and curious over how the troublemaking rascal is going to get out of another mess he’s made.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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