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Recent Examples of scratch pad
Naive context-sharing patterns, global caches, aggressive compaction and broadcast scratch pads often make this worse, not better.
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Shailesh Manjrekar,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
The intuition behind chatbot reasoning is to have AI models work out a solution step-by-step, using a scratch pad of sorts, and then evaluate steps along the way to change course or start over as needed—very much like the two-step approach used by AlphaGo.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
30 Mar. 2026
Quick Notes, for example, is your new digital scratch pad for jotting down notes.
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Julian Chokkattu,
Wired News,
30 Sep. 2025
In the company’s office at 57 Broadway, Mead pulled out a yellow scratch pad and jotted a profit-sharing proposal: McKim—42 percent; Mead—33 percent; White—25 percent.
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Henry Wiencek
july 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
Blue Jackets fans have had two choices over the past couple of weeks … twiddle their thumbs or get out a scratch pad and start doodling lines and pairs with an eye toward the start of the 2024-25 season.
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Aaron Portzline,
The Athletic,
21 July 2024
The desktop scratch pad has a laundry list of ideas to try in the coming months in my continuing effort to examine sports from different perspectives.
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Michael Casagrande | [email protected],
al,
3 May 2023
Part scratching post, part toy, this round and standalone scratch pad features an insert for the cardboard scratchpads, which are easy to replace.
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Jessie Quinn,
Peoplemag,
14 Apr. 2023
To get to 90 percent utilization, IBM had to design the scratch pad with a huge read/write bandwidth, 192 gigabytes per second.
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IEEE Spectrum,
2 July 2018
Shailesh Manjrekar,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
The intuition behind chatbot reasoning is to have AI models work out a solution step-by-step, using a scratch pad of sorts, and then evaluate steps along the way to change course or start over as needed—very much like the two-step approach used by AlphaGo.
—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
30 Mar. 2026
Quick Notes, for example, is your new digital scratch pad for jotting down notes.
—
Julian Chokkattu,
Wired News,
30 Sep. 2025
In the company’s office at 57 Broadway, Mead pulled out a yellow scratch pad and jotted a profit-sharing proposal: McKim—42 percent; Mead—33 percent; White—25 percent.
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Henry Wiencek
july 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
Blue Jackets fans have had two choices over the past couple of weeks … twiddle their thumbs or get out a scratch pad and start doodling lines and pairs with an eye toward the start of the 2024-25 season.
—
Aaron Portzline,
The Athletic,
21 July 2024
The desktop scratch pad has a laundry list of ideas to try in the coming months in my continuing effort to examine sports from different perspectives.
—
Michael Casagrande | [email protected],
al,
3 May 2023
Part scratching post, part toy, this round and standalone scratch pad features an insert for the cardboard scratchpads, which are easy to replace.
—
Jessie Quinn,
Peoplemag,
14 Apr. 2023
To get to 90 percent utilization, IBM had to design the scratch pad with a huge read/write bandwidth, 192 gigabytes per second.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
2 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scratch pad
Noun
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The fleet processed more than 800 tablets during the first three hours of the livestream without recording any errors, highlighting the system’s consistency and reliability in a real production setting.
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This kicks off a war between Jessie and Lily, as Jessie tries to both get rid of the tablet and help shy Bonnie make new friends.
Noun
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Root added only two runs to his overnight 75 and was beaten by Henry between bat and pad and struck plumb on the back thigh.
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At one practice during the fall of 2024, Washington’s assistant athletic director of football academics Diamond Brown was standing on the sideline when Jonah bounded up to her in full pads and begun complaining about his grade in a music class.
Noun
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Over the past five years, Alexis Robbins has been workshopping a full-length dance piece based on the album that has remained obscure and elusive to all but a handful of people in Rhode Island.
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In a matter of weeks, Ariana Grande will release Petal, her eighth album.
Noun
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At a hearing last month, Carro ruled that a gun and notebook that prosecutors said linked Mangione to the killing could be used as evidence against him.
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Prosecutors said the notebook contains diary entries written by Mangione that shed light on his decision to target the healthcare executive.
Noun
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Interviewers often leave meetings with random observations scribbled on a notepad.
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But when Ava makes a bathroom trip, Deb hastily scribbles something in her notepad.
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“Scratch pad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scratch%20pad. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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