scrounge up
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Clams can be difficult to find, but an industrious otter can scrounge up dozens of marine snails, then eat them all in one sitting.
From Science Magazine • May 15, 2024
Yet to dissolve Alameda, they’d need to scrounge up $14 billion to cover Alameda’s liabilities, and they didn’t quite have that money.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2023
Lucchesi flew to Fermilab, which is just outside of Chicago, and pleaded with MAP physicists to scrounge up the old code, which was hiding on a dusty, forgotten computer.
From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023
In the administration’s early days, the government was struggling to scrounge up enough vaccine for those who wanted it.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021
Maybe Miep will be able to scrounge up something on the black market.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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