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  • noun Plural form of scrambler.

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Examples

  • I usually try to hide other veggies in scramblers and omletes.

    Babies Who Lunch kittenpie 2006

  • Bandari could have asked to use one of their scramblers, that is if his brain was still functioning.

    Haven Maxim, John R. 1997

  • Networks imposed DRM (scramblers) on their satellite feeds in the 1980s to discourage dish owners from watching the raw feed, and then negotiated with DISH TV years later to carry local programming.

    Amazon Pulls First Second Books, Other Macmillan Titles » Comics Worth Reading 2010

  • More precisely, in Siri's words, humanity represents the "flukes and fossils" while the scramblers represent the true norm.

    MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009

  • "Uh, I pledge allegiance, uh, to all the scramblers/Uh, this is the Star Spangled Banner" -- JAY-Z, "Made in America," featuring Kanye West and Frank Ocean

    Kevin Powell: Made in America: Unemployment and Labor Day Kevin Powell 2011

  • Thanks to two years of egg-related research by The Cornucopia Institute, an advocate for real family farms, I was ultra-dismayed to learn the words "organic" and "cage-free" does not mean that the chickens who lay these eggs were put out on a nice, natural pasture with plenty of room to flap their flightless little wings, eat stuff they should be eating, and then go back to comfy nests to lay gorgeous future scramblers.

    Suzan Colón: Organic Egg on Our Faces Suzan Colón 2010

  • And he achieves all of this while speeding through space alone for years upon years ... carrying knowledge of the scramblers and what they represent for humanity's sense of its own evolutionary superiority, knowing that humans on Earth are being systematically wiped out by the vampires, believing he could be the last conscious/self-aware human being left.

    MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009

  • As long rallies started to replace short points, sliding on a hard court remained rare—only light, low-to-the-ground scramblers such as Michael Chang would do it.

    The Slide Show at the Open Tom Perrotta 2011

  • More that they were at something like a midpoint between humans and scramblers on the consciousness scale.

    MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009

  • Thanks to two years of egg-related research by The Cornucopia Institute, an advocate for real family farms, I was ultra-dismayed to learn the words "organic" and "cage-free" does not mean that the chickens who lay these eggs were put out on a nice, natural pasture with plenty of room to flap their flightless little wings, eat stuff they should be eating, and then go back to comfy nests to lay gorgeous future scramblers.

    Suzan Colón: Organic Egg on Our Faces Suzan Colón 2010

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