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as in cash
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something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
she treated her buddies to a drink whenever she had the scratch for it
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Recent Examples of scratch
Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
The pretty, bright glaze helps prevent scratches, chipping, and cracks, so Mom can use it for years to come.
—Madeline Merinuk, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 10 Apr. 2026
Not quite eucalyptus, but these bamboo sheets, found on Amazon, won’t leave you scratching or itching.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 10 Apr. 2026
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Noun
And as of Wednesday, April 8, the guild has detailed its full MBA tentative deal with the studios that writers will work under for the next three… er, scratch that, four years!
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
The pretty, bright glaze helps prevent scratches, chipping, and cracks, so Mom can use it for years to come.
—Madeline Merinuk, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
Things like abrasive cleaners, stiff scrub brushes, undiluted bleach, and strong acidic solutions can permanently scratch or dull the surface of acrylic and fiberglass tubs.
—Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 10 Apr. 2026
Not quite eucalyptus, but these bamboo sheets, found on Amazon, won’t leave you scratching or itching.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scratch
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Pet owners can get infected when flea poop enters the body through cuts or scrapes in the skin, or if rubbed into the eyes.—
Joyann Jeffrey,
PEOPLE,
8 Apr. 2026
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LinkedIn claims the dispute stems from Teamfluence attempting to web scrape data, prompting the social networking site to crack down.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
7 Apr. 2026
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Dave Walton, a corn, soybean, and hay farmer in Iowa and vice president of the American Soybean Association, said in March that some of his neighbors didn’t have cash on hand last fall to buy fertilizer and were struggling to budget for fertilizer due to high prices.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Building the Xcel Center and investing in a professional hockey team brought in some cash to one corner of the city but did nothing to restore the lost social and human capitals.—
Stephen B. Young,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Sara Aparacio, a resident cleaning expert at Homeaglow, equates scrubbing an appliance with an abrasive sponge to rubbing it with very fine sandpaper.—
Maria Sabella,
The Spruce,
11 Apr. 2026
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Blot — don’t rub — and avoid over-wetting the mattress, which can lead to mold growth if moisture gets trapped inside.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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The bodies, along with that of his six-month pregnant daughter-in-law, arrived in wooden coffins on a bus from Lebanon, their names scribbled on the sides.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The trilogy concluded on April 1 with Fagen scribbling an inscrutable equation on the car window until, again, taking a break to consult an invisible timepiece on his wrist.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2026
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Mr Cobra opens like a dark, cobwebbed staircase leading into a vast and foreboding space, all frantic flute and piano, creaks, and bone-chilling screeches (not to mention a slutty monologue seemingly communicated via Google Translate).—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
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Your baby was waking at every creak of the floorboard, every passing car, every branch scraping the window.—
Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
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Participants don’t get their scholarship money until passing their first semester back with C’s or better.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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One of the alleged victims, 95-year-old Angela Liriano, said she was left without money for food after her benefits disappeared.—
Abby Dodge,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Subscribe today Hello, this is Leonie Kidd writing to you from London.—
Leonie Kidd,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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In March, shortly after the Da Nang landing, an Assistant Secretary of Defense, John McNaughton, wrote a memo assigning relative weights to American objectives in Vietnam.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The unlawful taking of items from a machine or device that is operated or activated by the use of coins.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Apr. 2026
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Now, bagel shops around the country are getting serious coin from investment funds.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Scratch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scratch. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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