scored

past tense of score
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as in filed
to mark with or as if with a line or groove the glassblower scored the glass rod first so that it would break cleanly

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as in won
to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points he scored the winning goal in the final minute of play

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Recent Examples of scored Kinney, a 6-3, 190-pound native of Newport, Kentucky, scored 14 points on 5-of-15 shooting (2-of-6 beyond the arc, 2-of-2 from the line) with three steals and one assist in 32 minutes on Sunday. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026 The Dolphins eventually scored again, and the moment passed, but the clock management from the coach was curious. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Bouanga scored the first goal for LAFC, which is headed to the MLS playoffs for the eighth time in its nine seasons of existence. — Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026 Reese scored 8 points on 2-of-12 shooting during the Dream’s Game 4 loss Saturday. — Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 26 Oct. 2026 The Horned Frogs’ defense deserves a ton of credit for shutting down a Baylor offense that scored 55 points and rolled up 564 yards in its last game against Arizona State. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026
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  • The University of Arizona Police Department, which filed the search warrant, said on Tuesday that the investigation was ongoing.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Davis’s letter follows a separate ethics complaint filed by a conservative watchdog group to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over Slotkin’s University of Chicago remarks, first reported by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026
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  • Meanwhile, national Republicans are attempting to mobilize the state’s conservative voters around Marshall in a state Trump won with 57% of the vote in 2024.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
  • In 2022, Lula summoned his old populist magnetism, built a coalition large enough to defeat Bolsonaro, and won a third term.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • Zhang fell into the water four times and achieved a maximum distance of only 20 meters (66 feet).
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The Roadster also did not fly any appreciable distance, landing short of even the 120 feet the Wright Brothers achieved during their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
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  • For example, just recently, Musk publicly scolded the CEO of Delta in a scorching post on X when the airline did not partner with Starlink to provide Wi-Fi on Delta flights.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
  • But leaders seeking to encourage tourism scolded residents who warned of the danger on social media.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • But the divisive veteran Israeli leader has scratched, scraped and literally battled his way back during a stormy three-year period of nonstop domestic crises and wars across the region.
    — Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Vaginal tissue very easily can get scratched and can bleed, depending on how smooth the wicker is.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
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  • As of Monday afternoon, 525,970 votes had been tallied across North Carolina, according to the John Locke Foundation’s Vote Tracker.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Clayton Keller, Kevin Stenlund, Nate Schmidt and Nick Schmaltz all tallied a goal and an assist to help the Utah Mammoth beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-4 on Monday night.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
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  • No Israeli party has ever attained the 50% share needed to control parliament by itself.
    — Hannah Ridge, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The researchers demonstrated the benefit of using different atoms by maintaining quantum entanglement for 10 seconds as against a few milliseconds attained with the same set of atoms.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
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  • Earhart lectured at the school before embarking on her final flight.
    — News Editor, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Luann patiently attempts to explain that the women don’t like being lectured to about their business affairs, only for Vicki to abruptly answer a phone call mid-conversation.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026

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“Scored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scored. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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