scrounge around
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At one point, the man who created such transporting excursions into grace as the Opus 39 Waltzes had to scrounge around for his own piano.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“It was absolutely horrendous. We were really struggling, having to scrounge around for masks and gloves,“ says Mandi Masters, a community midwife from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
Then, maybe I’ll hit the Tompkins Square Greenmarket and scrounge around for things I need to get for Ethel.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
The caffeine sometimes kept me from dragging, but by the late afternoon, I would inevitably hit a wall and have to scrounge around the office for dusty purse candy or a stale granola bar.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2022
I'll have to scrounge around in the now-collapsed canvas to get the spare material for patching.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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