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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For parts, he scrounged around various offices and supply rooms, scavenging what seemed useful.
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He made his way through a ragpickers' village built with material scavenged from other parts of the city.
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He was looking for his two sons, who had been out scavenging bones when the storm struck.
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Not even squatters camped in this place, so more likely they'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes.
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Occasionally, the clouds, cleared and I was able to film mink scavenging along the rocky shoreline at low tide.
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That's far below our eyrie - I go down there to scavenge .
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Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat.
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With only the single, terrible fact of 21 December known for certain, journalists have scavenged and speculated.