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scrounge around

  1. Forage about in an effort to obtain something at no cost, as in We scrounged around their kitchen looking for a snack. It derives from the dialectal scrunge, “steal.” [Colloquial; c. 1900]



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“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.

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Scrounge around their injured list, pick up Gavin Lux.

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Then, maybe I’ll hit the Tompkins Square Greenmarket and scrounge around for things I need to get for Ethel.

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A year ago, I was able to get a year-old iPad Pro for hundreds of dollars off its launch price at Best Buy; when I was looking for a similar deal this summer, the big box stores came up empty, and I had to scrounge around eBay until I could find something for a price I was willing to pay.

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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.

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