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Recent Examples of scab
The affected areas can leak clear fluid, develop scabs, and feel rough due to hyperkeratosis (thick, dry skin) or small bumps.2
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While the symptoms of eczema and hives differ, there also are several other major differences.
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Mark Gurarie, Health, 6 Feb. 2025
As the underlying skin heals, the dead cells form a scab that eventually falls off.
—Archana Sharma, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
Agarwood is the tree’s immune response to the infection, like how our skin forms a scab when we get cut.
—Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
Detectives immediately noticed Kayden had multiple bruises, lacerations, scabs and what appeared to be small burn marks on his face and body.
—Noe Padilla, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
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Mark Gurarie, Health, 6 Feb. 2025
As the underlying skin heals, the dead cells form a scab that eventually falls off.
—Archana Sharma, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
Agarwood is the tree’s immune response to the infection, like how our skin forms a scab when we get cut.
—Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
Detectives immediately noticed Kayden had multiple bruises, lacerations, scabs and what appeared to be small burn marks on his face and body.
—Noe Padilla, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
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Saturday's talks in Rome between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the rogue regime’s failure to dismantle its illicit nuclear weapons program have raised pressing questions about whether Tehran will adhere to a new deal.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Sadly, for now, Murkowski is one of vanishingly few Republican politicians with the guts to speak up against the party’s rogue president — a brave, but lonely, voice in the wilderness.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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This painting becomes the center of a scheme to weaken Cosimo’s reputation, and Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor, goldsmith and all-around scoundrel, is hired to steal it — a choice that leads to some of the most hilarious high jinks in the book.—
Chelsea Leu,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Yet too many Democrats are reacting as though Musk himself is the scoundrel.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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Since then, he’s been a haunted wretch of a character: stoned, sullen, stuck with recurring visions of shooting his wife and himself.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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Children meet superheroes and villains, engage with games and movies, and are greeted by staff in costume.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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The soul patch, villain, and walrus facial hair all work with masks while mutton chops and chin curtain don’t.—
Lisa Wood Shapiro,
Wired News,
18 Apr. 2025
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During my trip, Moore’s corps of consultants and roughnecks were drilling the fifth borehole of their experimental project.—
Brent Crane,
The New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2025
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Rico was played by squared jaw roughneck Casper Van Dien and the cast included Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Neil Patrick Harris and Michael Ironside.—
Borys Kit,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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The groper was a lowlife—a deranged doctor, bent on harvesting astronaut semen for pernicious procreative ends.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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That’s where detective Kang Dong-woo, played by Jo Woo-jin, searches for his teen daughter and ultimately enlists help from the lowlife fixer Yoon Gil-ho, played by Ji Chang-wook.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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For a browner crust, broil the scamp for 1-2 minutes before serving.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Jan. 2025
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There was a brief flurry of excitement this week when Coritiba, a club in the Brazilian second division, announced that Neymar would be signing for them, but that turned out to be the result of some mischievous scamps who hacked their website.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
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Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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