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Maybe a month after the web came into existence, there was a scraper for the web.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Steph and four-year-old Ellie were going for the teamwork approach, Steph with an orange shovel to shift the worst of the snow, and Ellie using a small scraper.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
Next was understanding how to use the heavy thing: how to grasp it, how to cut with it, how to use it as a bench scraper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
Then use a heat gun on the old paint and peel away as much as you can with a metal paint scraper.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Now, let me get on with my scraper and dung.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
If you’re putting something on the web and you’re surprised by scrapers, like, I just don’t have a whole ton of sympathy for your position.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
He builds scrapers, databases, interfaces, and other tools that are needed in the course of pursuing and telling a story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
The financial hub is famous for its dramatic skyline of sky scrapers set against a picturesque harbour, many of which are home to residents as well as as banks and commercial offices.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
So when the company began incorporating more A.I. models in earnest, those bots and scrapers relied on a system that had not been geared toward prioritizing healthy and reliable sites for years at that point.
From Slate ● May 16, 2024
In 1872 one such seeker—Charles Abbott, a New Jersey physician— found stone arrowheads, scrapers, and axheads on his farm in the Delaware Valley.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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