Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Straggling; rambling; irregular; haphazard; random: as, scrambling streets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
scramble . - noun An act of
scrambling . - adjective Confused and
irregular ;awkward ;scambling .
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Examples
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If you heard the word scrambling, that's really what a lot of quarterbacks and receivers are doing right now, scrambling to get together in the communication and the timing of things.
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If you heard the word scrambling, that's really what a lot of quarterbacks and receivers are doing right now, scrambling to get together in the communication and the timing of things.
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So said the witness, a man who'd pulled over to see what was going on, why a tall, dark-haired teenager was scrambling from a car to race for the tracks when a train was coming ...
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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So said the witness, a man who'd pulled over to see what was going on, why a tall, dark-haired teenager was scrambling from a car to race for the tracks when a train was coming ...
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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Los Angeles had Utah scrambling from the beginning, going 15-for-20 in the first quarter and shutting down every mini-run the Jazz made until it was too late.
USATODAY.com 2007
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•Best improv: Peyton Manning had a bright idea while scrambling from the pocket in the second quarter: a shovel pass to Dominic Rhodes.
Super Bowl breakdown 2007
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Decked out as a thriller — complete with a heroine thirsting for justice, a wily villain scrambling to stay one step ahead, cross-country chases, and close escapes — it is also another T.C. Boyle story of relationships gone awry, of strong women and the slightly awestruck men who orbit them.
New Fiction 2006
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Decked out as a thriller — complete with a heroine thirsting for justice, a wily villain scrambling to stay one step ahead, cross-country chases, and close escapes — it is also another T.C. Boyle story of relationships gone awry, of strong women and the slightly awestruck men who orbit them.
New Fiction 2006
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Skinner separated his shoulder after scrambling from the pocket late in the third quarter and returned for just one play - Tribble's third interception.
USATODAY.com - College Football - Wake Forest vs. Boston College 2006
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Best of luck in scrambling some sense out of moving chaos!
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