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as in cash
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something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
she treated her buddies to a drink whenever she had the scratch for it
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Recent Examples of scratch
Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
But a large language model built from scratch typically requires many more such training runs — sometimes thousands.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
Chris Colin, AFAR Media, 31 Jan. 2025
So this isn’t a 21-year-old taking the league by storm who is barely scratching the surface of his potential.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The model generated a million tokens freely from scratch — essentially, an entire bacterial genome.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
But a large language model built from scratch typically requires many more such training runs — sometimes thousands.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
Verb
My son Casper rode a smaller horse named Kodiak, who had a condition compelling him to scratch his belly on every prickly shrub in sight.
—Chris Colin, AFAR Media, 31 Jan. 2025
So this isn’t a 21-year-old taking the league by storm who is barely scratching the surface of his potential.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scratch
Noun
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The accident left Natalya with facial injuries from the airbag deployment, while Andrew sustained minor scrapes on his arm.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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The school nurse found extensive bruising on her body and scrapes on her stomach, buttocks and knees.—
Anthony G. Brown,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Jan. 2025
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At Marathon, Elliott helped facilitate the addition of a new director, transition to a new CEO, closure of the gap in per barrel EBITDA with VLO, retirement of 50% of its shares outstanding since 2021, and sale of the Speedway retail operation for $17 billion in after-tax cash proceeds.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2025
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Some countries, including the U.S., have tried to provide cash incentives for women to have more babies.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Clean both hands between the fingers and fingertips, then rub the back of your fingers against your palms.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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Someone in your network may rub you the wrong way today.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Traven Sharon stalked the center mat at Ball Arena Saturday night with two letters and a number, faded by sweat and toil — BB1 — scribbled on the outside of his left shoe.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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With digital labeling, no one has to try to remember who is who in your pictures (or decipher your illegible handwriting scribbled on the back).—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2025
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Gracey gets an astonishing amount across in the details: the goofy creak of a leather jumpsuit, a camera angle tilted to show the utterly unspectacular pulley system that yanked Williams upside-down in front of a crowd of 125,000.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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The chapel was so old that creaks shuttered across the floor like lightning.—
Nicolette Polek,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Apr. 2024
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Parents could use the money toward tuition at a private school, microschool or learning pod, as well as tutoring, transportation costs or Advanced Placement tests.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Feb. 2025
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Throughout the interview, Ye made provocative insinuations about Jews and money and went on unprovoked tangents.—
Aja Romano,
Vox,
7 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The Grey Quill Society is a weekly memoir writing group for residents of the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s community for aging entertainment professionals.—
Martina Ibáñez-Baldor,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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Adapted from the French play written by Bernard Marie Koltès, the film is being billed as a tragic, enchanted tale of colonial passions and the affections of women and men on a night at the brink of change.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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Coining a Malady Ancient Greeks made their coins by extracting silver from lead-rich ore.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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Australia and New Zealand phased out their 1-cent coins in the 1990s, and Canada followed suit in 2012.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Scratch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scratch. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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