Example Sentences

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It might also mean that some traders were scooping up put options, which act like a form of portfolio insurance.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 14, 2025

Spurred by their observation, Goldberg’s colleagues and colleagues put a camera in the tree where chimps were scooping up guano and eating it.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 22, 2024

In the early 2000s, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, a Democrat, intervened when Northern ski resorts and Florida landscapers were scooping up the visas before Maryland crab houses had a chance to apply.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2022

Other residents in Sillim were scooping up water with large bowls or combing through the detritus to see whatever was still usable.

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2022

Nearer, up the beach, individuals were scooping sand with their helmets to make foxholes.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan