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scratch

noun as in small cut or mark

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verb as in cut; make a mark on

verb as in cancel

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But if you are in the camp of wanting to make your stuffing fully from scratch, this is a dish that’s super easy to prep or make-ahead of time and simply reheat pre-dinner.

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The Pentagon didn’t specify the kinds of ships that might replace the four it scratched off its order list.

“That makes its silicon a tool to deepen an existing moat, not a new business it has to sell from scratch.”

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Four Welsh councils later told the Welsh Affairs Select Committee the money "only scratches the surface" of what was needed.

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But 250 years ago Americans were trying to create a nation from scratch and had no such luxury.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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