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The firm may be scooping up market share, but the bigger picture is still far from pretty.

Hundreds of those Chinese fishing boats are on seaweed patrol, scooping up the bright green matter.

In front of her stall, two large earth-moving machines were scooping up chunks of the green algae that covered most of the beach.

Apple has been scooping up chip makers as well so it can improve the engines that power devices like the iPhone and iPad.

Scooping up the handgun, he bounded outside and held it to the foreman's head.

But it's not only gift-givers that are scooping up the precious metal this year.

But on February 21st two diggers began scooping up and gently winnowing the ground in search of human remains.

Asian buyers have been scooping up food brands, but they have mostly been Indian.

The spacecraft, which is also its own laboratory, will soon start scooping up soil and ice and running tests on it.

Make a delicious parfait instead of scooping up high calorie ice cream.

Another fire the same year caused by villagers scooping up fuel from an overturned petrol tanker killed 122.

In August, China sold 2 trillion yen ($24 billion) after scooping up 2. 3 trillion from January to July.

Even worse than that is the tiny portion of pitta bread you get for scooping up a trough of houmous.