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from scratch

ADVERB
from the very beginning
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OpenAI and Anthropic make money in part by selling access to their APIs, which customers use to embed their AI into custom projects and tools without having to build their own models from scratch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

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

It's better Clarke handles this rather than throwing in a newbie to start from scratch.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

If I want water, I'll have to make it from scratch.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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