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With a reported $35-million budget, familiar genre bones and a PG-13 rating, “The Boogeyman” may seem the antithesis of the scrappily inventive and sharp-edged, low-budget films that launched Savage’s career.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2023

It was Wannabe - the scrappily brilliant debut single by The Spice Girls.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2021

His verses are scrappily beautiful collage-poems achieved by cutting, pasting, excising and mating words and phrases by different writers into seamless meditations on humanity, death and art.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2018

When America faces turmoil, baseball scrappily grinds out hope.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2016

This desolate garden-land had been even in my youth scrappily planned out for building.

From A Miscellany of Men by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)