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Recent Examples of scratched
Skinner didn’t play on the road trip, and Iorio has been scratched for three straight games.
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Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
Teravainen missed his third straight game with an upper-body injury, and Burakovsky was scratched with an illness.
—CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
It’s lined with a microfiber suede, so none of my items will get scratched.
—Ali Faccenda, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
The five-race Cal Cup is losing a potential headliner because 7-year-old Big City Lights, defending champion in the $125,000 Don Valpredo California Cup Sprint, is going to be scratched after injuring a foot by stepping on himself, trainer Richard Mandella said Thursday.
—Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
Mistakes to Avoid When Cleaning Chrome Chrome can easily be scratched or damaged if it’s not cleaned properly.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 14 Jan. 2026
On this occasion, at the beginning of a campaign that would end with Liverpool being crowned champions for the first time in 30 years, a veneer was scratched.
—Simon Hughes, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Pedro scratched his chin, with his eyes on the other turn of the river, the one a mile and a half upstream, to the right of the camp.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Near them is a pen and a yellow legal pad, with a few lines scratched in an uneven, boyish hand.
—Sadia Shepard, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
Teravainen missed his third straight game with an upper-body injury, and Burakovsky was scratched with an illness.
—CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
It’s lined with a microfiber suede, so none of my items will get scratched.
—Ali Faccenda, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
The five-race Cal Cup is losing a potential headliner because 7-year-old Big City Lights, defending champion in the $125,000 Don Valpredo California Cup Sprint, is going to be scratched after injuring a foot by stepping on himself, trainer Richard Mandella said Thursday.
—Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
Mistakes to Avoid When Cleaning Chrome Chrome can easily be scratched or damaged if it’s not cleaned properly.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 14 Jan. 2026
On this occasion, at the beginning of a campaign that would end with Liverpool being crowned champions for the first time in 30 years, a veneer was scratched.
—Simon Hughes, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Pedro scratched his chin, with his eyes on the other turn of the river, the one a mile and a half upstream, to the right of the camp.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Near them is a pen and a yellow legal pad, with a few lines scratched in an uneven, boyish hand.
—Sadia Shepard, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scratched
Verb
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Unlike other models on the market that are fed large datasets scraped from the internet, Firefly Foundry models — which are being marketed to businesses as opposed to regular consumers — are unique to each of Adobe’s clients and only trained on IP that clients own the rights to.—
Charles Pulliam-Moore,
The Verge,
22 Jan. 2026
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Training data for the models is often a messy patchwork assembled from millions of sources, much of it scraped from the open web.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Kelly grated on Hegseth, beginning even before Hegseth was confirmed to head the Pentagon.—
Ronald J. Hansen,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Parmesan cheese, grated (about 1/4 cup) Directions Gather all ingredients.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
4 Jan. 2026
Verb
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At these delightfully divey watering holes, every visible surface is covered in dollars scribbled with the initials, anniversaries, hometowns, inside jokes, dates, or names of anyone who has darkened the doors of that particular bar over the past fifty years—or maybe just the past week.—
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
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Gradually, the forest of memorabilia began to thin out, though bare objects kept popping up in place of those Federer had already scribbled on.—
Owen Lewis,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The cat had blood pouring from its mouth and was surrounded by arcane symbols scrawled on the walls.—
Emma Seiwell,
Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2026
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The cat had blood pouring from its mouth and was surrounded by arcane symbols scrawled on the walls.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Scratched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scratched. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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