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Recent Examples of scab
Reviewer Nena Farrell noticed a healthier glow, with scabs and breakouts healing faster and without the usual scarring.
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Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 1 Dec. 2025
In the first two weeks, both the donor and recipient areas heal as scabs fall away and the scalp begins to settle.
—Wyles Daniel, Freep.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Applying fungicide can reduce scab and its severity, improve grain weight and reduce mycotoxin contamination.
—Tom W. Allen, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
In more severe cases, the skin may crack, ooze, scab or become raw and extremely uncomfortable.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
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Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 1 Dec. 2025
In the first two weeks, both the donor and recipient areas heal as scabs fall away and the scalp begins to settle.
—Wyles Daniel, Freep.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Applying fungicide can reduce scab and its severity, improve grain weight and reduce mycotoxin contamination.
—Tom W. Allen, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
In more severe cases, the skin may crack, ooze, scab or become raw and extremely uncomfortable.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scab
Noun
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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.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
17 Dec. 2025
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Giannis, a gentleman even in this era of scoundrels, likely wants to do right by the Bucks, too.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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OpenAI’s safety framework requires special safeguards for models with high cybersecurity risk that are designed to prevent the AI from going rogue and doing things like acting deceptively, sabotaging safety research, or hiding its true capabilities.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Men and their doctors aren’t going rogue with this treatment—there is some research behind it.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
6 Feb. 2026
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The elegant sets and lavish costume designs are stunning, as is Jacob Elordi's multi-faceted performance as the intelligent wretch stitched together from corpses.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
27 Dec. 2025
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Her expressions, her movements, her delivery — all of it makes Carol more complex than just a miserable wretch.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Dec. 2025
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As the now-45-year-old driver was announced at each racetrack in 2025, Hamlin, after years of embracing the role of villain in a sport in desperate need of one, had a heel-turn to the light.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Feb. 2026
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Built into an old limestone quarry, the winery felt like a Bond villain’s secret lair—sleek, subterranean, and wildly impressive.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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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.—
William Earl,
Variety,
22 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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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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The history of The Little Rascals dates back to the 1920s, when a series of short films called our Our Gang introduced audiences to lovable scamps like Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Porky.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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The annual spawning season closure affects species such as black, gag, yellowfin, scamp, red and rock hind grouper, among others.—
Luisa Yanez,
Miami Herald,
28 Dec. 2025
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Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Scab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scab. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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