from scratch

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Making a roux from scratch teaches you something.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Microsoft says it built the model "from scratch" with "no distillation" of rival models -- a common shortcut that involves copying a competitor's outputs to train a new system more cheaply and quickly.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Times 101 lists through the years and specialized in a sort of “no shortcuts” pre-World War II philosophy, with everything made from scratch, including its breadcrumbs and crackers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Because the drugs have already been developed and approved, redeploying them can be more straightforward than starting from scratch with new formulas.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

And those shared assumptions are usually pretty conservative: we don’t reinvent the world from scratch every time we float a theory.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith