scraps

Noun

Meaning

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

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After his father's death, Christopher Tolkien, whom his father had once called his "chief critic and collaborator", embarked on organizing the masses of his father's unpublished writings, some of them written on odd scraps of paper a half-century earlier. Source: Internet

After a decade of gutting public services and growing its media patronage, the Conservative party has become very good at making people fight for the scraps of resources it leaves behind. Source: Internet

• Arctic foxes get through the winter by scavenging for scraps and surviving on their food stores. Source: Internet

Although only scraps of the Orphic narratives survive, they show interesting differences with the Hesiodic tradition. Source: Internet

App users who’ve never heard of LeWitt (it’s hard to imagine anybody downloading this thing without some knowledge of the man, but still) will find a feast of biographical scraps herein. Source: Internet

Davis, p. 63 Frustrated with the dryly written stories, Crane stated, "I wonder that some of those fellows don't tell how they felt in those scraps. Source: Internet

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