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Recent Examples of scab
Patients are told to apply lotion to the affected areas, and just let the scabs form.
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Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
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What’s a good way for a ragtag group of video-game heroes (or for a heroic rogue flying solo) to either get some respite from the action or gear up for a momentous narrative?—
Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Jan. 2025
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And the issue at hand runs deeper than a few rogue docs overstepping their bounds.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
17 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
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The wretch was one E. W. Perera, a pivotal figure in the Ceylonese independence movement—and someone the narrator had celebrated growing up in Sri Lanka.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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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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His affinity for wrestling villains, or heels, adds another layer to his potential return.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
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Like Adeyemi/Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist could become the villain of the whole race if someone doesn’t intervene to stop it.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
23 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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In 1989, Panguna shuttered, and its roughnecks fled from Arawa.—
Sean Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 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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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 30 Jan. 2025.
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