as in degenerate
a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard
was often spotted in sordid places that reinforced a reputation as one of the city's most notorious rakes
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as in slope
the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon
the floor of the auditorium doesn't have much of a rake, so sightlines for spectators in the rear are not good
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as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
he raked repeatedly through his luggage, hoping that in one of the bags he would find his lost passport before his flight's departure
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Recent Examples of rake
N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 7 May 2025
It is generally ground to a relatively uniform particle size and spreads fairly easily with a rake or mulch fork.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025
Opposing hitters are raking at .380 at sea level, versus .332 in the shadow of those mountain peaks.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Noun
Jurors previously heard from the leader of the search team that sifted through the snow using rakes and brooms to find the evidence.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 7 May 2025
It is generally ground to a relatively uniform particle size and spreads fairly easily with a rake or mulch fork.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Verb
Voices For Subscribers June 19, 2025 After just three pitches to Muncy, Ferrer called out the grounds crew to rake the mound and smooth out his landing area on the downslope.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025
Opposing hitters are raking at .380 at sea level, versus .332 in the shadow of those mountain peaks.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Police are searching for a suspect believed to have killed four family members in rural Tennessee and then abandoned a 7-month-old baby girl in a front yard 25 miles away this week.—
Nicole Acosta,
People.com,
31 July 2025
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But cosmologists have actually been searching for holes in the standard model—holes that might lead to a more complete understanding of spacetime, because the standard model has limitations.—
Sarah Scoles,
JSTOR Daily,
31 July 2025
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No Mongolian goats had ever had their bellies combed in its creation.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 July 2025
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Lutnick was carrying around a physical prototype of the Trump Card, and combing through the sign-up list to see who was interested.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Determined to find a way to make his first feature-length movie, Zhou took a multi-tiered approach to securing financing.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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As Cincinnati city leaders consider new ways to enforce the curfew for youth who stay out too late, an Enquirer review of data found police across Hamilton County have been steadily filing fewer curfew violations over the past 25 years.—
David Ferrara,
The Enquirer,
25 July 2025
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There are dozens of uninhabited islands in the Halifax River near Daytona Beach, created when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged the river in the 1950s.—
Bob Morris,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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Fire Chief Dan Besson of the Leland Township Fire and Rescue confirmed that the mouth of the harbor is dredged by the township every year, but did not know if the dredging is what caused O'Brien to get stuck.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Some all-in-one printers can also scan for digital copies or make photocopies while also printing normally.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
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Most brands have little to no mechanism to scan for anecdotes and outliers.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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“Rake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rake. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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