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scrambles

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Scrambles for fuel have sparked anarchic scenes which the bankrupt state’s security forces have struggled to contain.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2021

Koepka misses his birdie, BUT Woodland has a monster of a par putt coming up … can Magical Mr. Scrambles keep up the death-defying salvation show?

From Golf Digest • Jun. 16, 2019

Whymper’s book about his first ascent, Scrambles Amongst the Alps, published in 1871, became a worldwide bestseller, and tourists began to flock to Switzerland in summer.

From National Geographic • Jul. 14, 2015

A Dec. 7 New York Times article called “China Scrambles for High Tech Dominance” gets it exactly wrong.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2012

There was, however, in the town of Scrambles a sharp dapper lawyer's clerk, who saw at once into the affair and what a frolic it might be made.

From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.