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scrape through

British  

verb

  1. (intr) to manage or survive with difficulty

  2. to succeed in with difficulty or by a narrow margin

    he scraped through by one mark

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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If you have a blog or a personal site, you can tell OpenAI not to scrape through robots.txt.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2023

Some of Wall Street’s biggest names are throwing cold water on expectations that the U.S. economy will scrape through 2023 without a recession, even as hopes of easing inflation and resilient growth propel stocks higher.

From Reuters Jan. 25, 2023

Mild weather allowed the continent to scrape through last winter.

From Seattle Times May 18, 2022

"They've been in this position before in the past and they've always managed to scrape through," he said.

From BBC May 21, 2019

I can feel the vibration of the scrape through my socks.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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