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It can be used as a verb meaning to hurry in order to get somewhere or to do something. For example: She was scrambling to get her report finished before the deadline.
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scrambling
verb
Present participle of scramble
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Cardiff threatened only once, midway through the first half, when a cross from Jordon Mutch enabled Campbell to get in a header that had Julian Speroni scrambling low to his left.
Just when they are at their most sleep-deprived, politicians will be scrambling to do a deal that will put them in power.
American Ballet Theatre London ABT haven't danced in the UK for 15 years but they are scrambling to fill the gap with this short season.
By Wednesday, her office was scrambling to clarify how she had acquired Swiss citizenship.
Oil companies are scrambling to invest in oil that's harder and more expensive – and therefore less profitable – to extract in a bid to keep up production.
It was all over, there was nobody left to listen, and all sensible folk were scrambling to the lifeboats – but those musicians, slaves to duty that they were, kept on sawing away at their violins and harpsichords.
For the BBC, the horror gushed forth at the stroke of 10pm; David Dimbleby sending his buttoned-up avengers scrambling across the studio to make sense of the exit poll before it could even be beamed across the wall of Broadcasting House.
After four months of talks with its eurozone partners and the IMF, the country's Syriza-led government is still scrambling for a deal that could release up to €7.2bn (£5.1bn) in remaining aid to avert bankruptcy.
With the country bereft of heavy industry – and scrambling to find work for a youth population starved of jobs – the sector is widely seen as the fuel that can keep the Greek economy's engine going.
Senate Republicans are scrambling to reach a consensus on how to reauthorise critical portions of the Patriot Act, as momentum appeared to be building for a surveillance reform bill passed by the House of Representatives.
Moscow has been scrambling to find ways to cut the budget for the 2018 World Cup in Russia by 10% as part of a new "anti-crisis plan" in response to economic woes caused by low oil prices and Western sanctions against the country.
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