1
as in to write
to compose and set down on paper the words of
scratched out a poem for his beloved wife on the home front
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2
as in to delete
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it
scratched out the old phone number and wrote in the new one
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Under the law as written and passed by Congress, approximately 32 million companies were subject to the CTA in 2024, the first year the law was in effect.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Brecher writes that some forms of tourism did exist much earlier in Japan.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Mar. 2025
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Platt deleted the post, but not before other social media users were able to take snaps of it and outlets like The Hollywood Reporter were able to quote it.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The post, which was seen by CNN, was deleted late Friday afternoon after screenshots of it started to circulate on Chinese social media.—
Will Ripley,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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Condon penned the script, and the film features music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.—
Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Mar. 2025
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In September 2022, O'Donnell penned an emotional essay for PEOPLE and opened up about Clay's autism diagnosis for the first time.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Under President Barack Obama, the department took steps to cancel accreditors for a now-defunct for-profit college chain, but the Trump administration blocked the move.—
Collin Binkley,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Also canceled: one study looking at reducing maternal mortality in New York and another on treatments for long COVID, The New York Times reports.—
Erica Pandey,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Scratch (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scratch%20%28out%29. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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