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scratching

adjective as in grating

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Ministers are scratching their heads trying to work out exactly what is going on behind the shiny black door.

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The same team kept winning the prize of a £30 bar tab, leaving regulars scratching their heads and some stopped turning up in protest.

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For now, Leclerc and Hamilton are simply left scratching their heads every time they travel to a Grand Prix.

Yields on U.S. government debt have seen big swings over the past two days, as the latest round of nongovernment data on the labor market has left investors scratching their heads.

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“We are literally just scratching the surface of global treatment here,” Ricks says.

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

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