Example Sentences

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They combed through CulturaX, one of the largest open-source Chinese-language data sets that AI labs use to train models—about 189 million documents scraped from the Chinese-language internet.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away called the 1990s, young people scraped by with tiny salaries and tried to save for retirement in a newfangled self-directed system.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

I scraped the whole mixture into my mini blender with a splash of water and blitzed it into a deep orange paste the color of late autumn leaves or a very expensive velvet couch.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

But AI had scraped her website’s content and used it to rank itself higher in search results; her company’s revenue had plummeted by about half and she’d had to let employees go.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

Huge, lopsided remnant bergs bobbed and heaved in the waves, and small chunks of broken floe knocked and scraped along the sides of the Caird.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong