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Recent Examples of scab
For the first part, Marino intensified the paint job and added in scabs and crusty pieces of skin that were flaking off.
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Sep. 2024
The optometrist was young, with a dark mustache and a scab between his eyebrows.
—Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Rashes go through several stages, including scabs, before healing, the CDC says.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
Picking scabs disrupts the wound-healing process and can cause more severe scarring.
—Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Sep. 2024
The optometrist was young, with a dark mustache and a scab between his eyebrows.
—Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Rashes go through several stages, including scabs, before healing, the CDC says.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
Picking scabs disrupts the wound-healing process and can cause more severe scarring.
—Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for scab
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
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The second update lets Android users find rogue trackers.Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 12 Dec. 2024
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Their review considered a range of potential harms, from carbon emissions to the risk of an AI system going rogue.Harry Booth, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
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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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Learning his real father is a world class scoundrel and creep probably was not very fun.Brian Grubb, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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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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Irrational self-belief is one of the reasons villains deeply resonate across culture, says Kevin Wynter, a professor of media studies at Pomona College.Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
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Here the villain isn't a person but an incredibly advanced AI with the power to destabilize the world.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 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
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Premiere date: November 17 Where to stream Landman: Paramount+ Synopsis: From Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan, Landman is based in the heart of Texas and follows roughnecks and billionaires trying to get rich quickly in the oil industry.Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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For the mom and the daughter and the civil jury sitting in judgment, that his accusations brought harassment and threats by pro-Trump lowlifes to their front door was the last straw.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 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 suave scamp buoys a ship taking on water, and the second and third episodes (of the eight-episode first season) pick up speed as their imagination balloons (thanks, in part, to director David Lowery).Ben Travers, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
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Silvio Berlusconi, that lovable scamp, made the sign behind the back of the Spanish foreign minister, Josep Piqué, at an official picture-taking of the European Union in 2002.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Dec. 2024
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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 31 Dec. 2024.
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