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Discover LudwigThe word "scavenger" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to an animal or person who searches for and collects discarded or lost items, or to describe searching for something in an unorganized way or a search for something that may not actually exist. For example, "The eagle swooped down to scavenge for food in the forest."
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Here, the city's once-definitive, now-dwindling Parsi community continues with its 3,000-year-old 3,000-year-old 3,000-year-oldosing of the dead body by exposing it to scavenger birds.
In the North Sea, EnQuest has pursued what it describes as a "scavenger strategy" centred on older fields that other oil companies have deemed unprofitable and abandoned.
Instead, by 1858, the walls had been demolished, brickwork removed, and the ground given over to a local scavenger, to use as a rubbish dump.
It is not the inspectors' job (as Mr Bush puts it) to "conduct a scavenger hunt for hidden materials across a country the size of California": they are supposed to verify disarmament, not compel it.
According to this law, the definition of "manual scavenger" has been widened to include a person engaged or employed for manual cleaning of human excreta in an insanitary latrine, an open drain or pit, on railway tracks, etc. Rehabilitation has been included in the act, and scholarship for children of manual scavengers, and training in another profession along with a stipend.
The eagle population first took a knock when America expanded west and trigger-happy ranchers confused the pescivorous scavenger with the golden eagle, a species that really does eat chicken and sheep.
Calling the number sent them on a scavenger hunt with online components.And this massive cross-media event represented only one part of a game called "The Dark Knight", put together by 42 Entertainment, an advertising company, to promote the film of the same name.
A scavenger at Payatas can earn, perhaps, $5 per day.
It is the wide iron pan and wire brush she carries that mark her out as someone to be avoided: these are the ancient tools of the "manual scavenger", a euphemism for those who clean up the faeces from houses that lack flushing toilets.Manual scavenging was banned in 1993 by a law that also forbade the unplumbed toilets that necessitate it.
They have devised a scavenger hunt conducted using satellite-navigation devices and helped to create podcasts explaining how to avoid being killed by a bear (sing as you hike so you don't surprise it), among other subjects.Rangers give lectures with titles like "Treemendous Programme" and "Yukky Animal Stuff" (Sniff a skunk pelt! Ogle bear scat!).
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In 1987, a scrap-scavenger in Brazil unwittingly cut up a canister containing cesium powder which he had stolen from an abandoned clinic: the resulting contamination left several people dead and 28 with radiation burns.
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