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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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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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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to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it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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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
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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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About 30%, or $43 billion, of our money was lost to waste, fraud or abuse.—
Sharyl Attkisson,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 2025
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After the money was paid, it was discovered that the seller only rented the farm on which the meteor fell, and the owner of the land took legal action and took the box from the express company.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 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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That’s due to the impact of tariffs on the U.S. dollar and other global currencies.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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Digital currency exchange Coinbase is slated to report earnings later Thursday.—
Medora Lee,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Leftover dough and scraps can be rolled out again and cut and baked into biscuits.—
SAVEUR Editors,
Saveur,
5 Feb. 2025
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The porous material of the pizza stone can draw water out of the dough, resulting in a dish that’s evenly cooked and crispy.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
5 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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