scratch
Example Sentences
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“We really had to claw and scratch and ask for favors,” Tenev said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Cooking a full-fledged meal from scratch seems too laborious.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
The structure, designed by Maybe Paris with Hermès creative director Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, was built from scratch and took three weeks to build.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 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
“My mother already noticed the scratch on the oud.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Vocabulary lists containing scratch
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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