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The phrase "scab of" is correct and usable in written English, though it may carry negative connotations
It can be used in contexts discussing a wound or metaphorically referring to someone who undermines a group. Example: "He was seen as a scab of the union, taking jobs while others were on strike."
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Spongospora subterranea causes powdery scab of potato.
I'm outside the stadium in the gigantic blue night, scab of a moon on its forehead.
The same goes for Whiteread's House - a pale scab of history on the London landscape.
Fantastically deranged at all times, Darren Aronofsky's ballet psycho-melodrama is a glittering, crackling, outrageously pickable scab of a film.
He hounded schools chancellors out of town and pulled at the scab of race relations to little obvious end.
The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, to pick the scab of your whole existence.
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Here we present the completed genome sequence and annotation of the reference strain PH-1 of Fusarium graminearum, the causal agent of head scab disease of small grain cereals which threatens global food security.
I was surprised by the bumpiness of the speedway, littered with scabs of black rubber.
Past homes where yards are dead foliage and scabs of dirt.
London is full of ghosts — ghost walks; a city's worth of cemeteries; ghost-advertising, scabs of paint on brick.
"To revisit tragedy in a way that's imaginative and challenging is not the same as lying in bed picking at the scabs of memory," he said.
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