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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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as in to write
to compose and set down on paper the words of
scratched out a poem for his beloved wife on the home front
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as in to delete
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it
scratched out the old phone number and wrote in the new one
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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
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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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The creak of a hinge, the thrum of water running through the pipes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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In addition to hiring ambassadors, money will also go toward adding staffers in the security operations center, which collects feeds from more than 2,000 cameras, and security guards who are typically law enforcement.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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Flipcause, based in California, was used by thousands of nonprofits nationwide to process online donations, allowing money to be collected on the platform before being transferred to individual organizations.—
Kelly Werthmann,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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During a search of Muñoz's desk, investigators found rare antique coins with a receipt in the name of another dead man that Muñoz investigated in 2022, according to prosecutors.—
Julie Sharp,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Maybe it would be obsessed with 18th-century coin production.—
Amanda Gefter,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Apr. 2026
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However, the only highly visible campaign is that of billionaire Steyer, who’s not only hopping around the state for personal appearances but shelling out millions of his own bucks for television and internet ads.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
8 Apr. 2026
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The current rules allow hunters to take two bucks a year, depending on the circumstances.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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This occurred after tens of thousands of Iranians protested at the end of last year after their currency crashed.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2026
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To be sure, cracks in the petrodollar’s foundation is still far from the currency becoming irrelevant.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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On the menu are also vegan cookies, brownies and an immense mashup of dough called a Cinnacake that feeds several people ($65-$96).—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
10 Apr. 2026
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This brioche is made in France and incorporates a generous amount of chocolate, with cocoa powder in the dough and chocolate chips throughout.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Scratch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scratch. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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