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An example use of scavenger in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… sluggish scavenger but there's a certain …”
Scavenger is someone who searches for and collects items that have been discarded or left behind.
the word scavenger occurs in english on average 0.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.