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Recent Examples of scab
Periods aren’t the only situations where blood could mysteriously appear; healing cuts, scabs, and nosebleeds are also common.
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Julia Forbes, Wired News, 3 Aug. 2025
If your cat has not scratched itself enough to get red skin and/or scabs then an allergy, if present, may not be too serious.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 27 July 2025
For other victims, Epstein’s reappearance in the news is like tearing the scab from a wound.
—Adam Reiss, NBC news, 18 July 2025
That relationship picked an emotional scab for Davidtz.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
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Going back to the origins of everyone's favorite scoundrel, Han Solo, may have felt like a no-brainer — especially with Kasdan on board as co-writer — but the film never felt like an essential addition to the rapidly expanding canon.—
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Giannis, a gentleman even in this era of scoundrels, likely wants to do right by the Bucks, too.—
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The United States of America is a rogue nation, run by a violent criminal who operates outside the rule of law.—
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There will never again be one rogue program hijacking the sport with attitude and intimidation.—
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Only Martin — cast as a Dickensian wretch by Bonitzer’s legion of myopic elites, but always quietly acting against type — reserves the right to determine his own worth.—
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This mid-movie handoff dilutes the shock of how articulate the wretch proves in del Toro’s telling (the creature could barely speak in James Whale’s original Universal monster movie).—
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Sorkin finds no heroes but also no villains.—
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But what Ole Miss has had to deal with is beyond the norm, with Kiffin in the villain’s role.—
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Beyond his duties as a host and journalist, the native West Texan spent time working as an oil roughneck himself, and grew up in a family with members in the fields.—
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His job as the titular landman is to secure leases for oil extraction, to manage crews of roughnecks, and to deal with local government and police.—
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Trump represents a father figure who is returning to the house, and there are various people living in it who are freeloaders and grifters and lowlifes abusing the kingdom.—
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The groper was a lowlife—a deranged doctor, bent on harvesting astronaut semen for pernicious procreative ends.—
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Because a leathery little scamp like E.T. is lovable only in the uninhibited mind of a child; fear, distrust, and paranoia are born of experience and disappointment.—
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The annual spawning season closure affects species such as black, gag, yellowfin, scamp, red and rock hind grouper, among others.—
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In a time when unemployment is on the rise and the rich are running amok and wreaking havoc on the poor — and the social services in place to support them — who doesn’t love the idea of rogue rascals sticking it to a bougie institution by running off with its crown jewels?—
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The hilarious hijinks that ensue are centered on a rugby-playing rascal whose initial interests in pulling chicks and working get-rich-quick schemes give way to a lifelong love of writing poetry in the post-Soviet-occupation era of the 1990s.—
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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