Example Sentences

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AI companies, flush with cash, have been scooping up high-quality office space in the city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

But recently city workers have been scooping them up to move them further away from the parade route.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025

Streaming video platforms have been scooping up viewers who watch scripted shows and movies, leaving live sports as the last bastion of traditional TV.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2022

For example, in BlackRock’s San Francisco office, where the company’s booming E.T.F. unit is based, executives, many of them industry pioneers, have been scooping up WisdomTree stock for their personal investment accounts.

From New York Times • May 7, 2015

On any other night, the guys would have been scooping it up by the fistful, making snowballs, and bombarding each other, but not tonight.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely