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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
Nearly one hundred people had just one item on their list as they entered the Home Depot in Monrovia on Saturday: a small ice scraper worth a little less than a dollar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025
"My favorite tool to 'chop' down butter for baking is my metal bench scraper."
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
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
Our project this term was to design and make some sort of a scraper.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
Clovis culture had a distinctive set of tools: scrapers, spear- straighteners, hatchetlike choppers, crescent-moon-shaped objects whose function remains unknown.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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