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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
The novice cook decides every condiment ought to be made from scratch.
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
What you end up having to do is actually go through it again and redo all of it from scratch.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
“With their well-developed sense of rhythm, these birds could easily learn poetic meter. In time, perhaps you might teach them to scratch out a sonnet.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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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