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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to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it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
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Landeskog played in two games with the AHL’s Colorado Eagles, posting a goal and an assist, but was a scratch for Game 1.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Susannah Cahalan, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
The events don’t even scratch the surface of what’s to come for the entire weekend.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Noun
No materials from the first season’s version of Jackson, which was built in Canmore, Alberta, were retained when production moved to British Columbia for season two, so Macauley and his team had to construct a thriving Jackson from scratch before production started in February 2024.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Landeskog played in two games with the AHL’s Colorado Eagles, posting a goal and an assist, but was a scratch for Game 1.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
Rosemary restrained herself from scratching at her wig.
—Susannah Cahalan, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
The events don’t even scratch the surface of what’s to come for the entire weekend.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scratch
Noun
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Cover and help protect minor wounds, cuts, scrapes and burns with BAND-AID Brand Flexible Fabric Adhesive Bandages featuring details from artworks by Katsushika Hokusai in The Met collection.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Without guardrails, these systems scrape, remix, and reproduce sacred imagery, ceremonial language, and ancestral designs — usually without consent or context.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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If no one wins the jackpot, the cash prize will continue to tick up.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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One afternoon, Coogler stopped by a Bank of America to make a sizable cash withdrawal from his account to cover some family expenses.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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My assumption is that most rational human beings would happily stay in a warm and cozy office and simply listen to the building creak and groan under the force of the violent gusts.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
11 Mar. 2025
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The set is a ship’s deck that tilts and creaks ominously while a screen plays eerily textured footage of a roiling ocean.—
Houman Barekat,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Medora Lee is a money, markets, and personal finance reporter at USA TODAY.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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The agency does more than just give out money: FEMA deploys experts in disaster response and recovery and maintains stockpiles of emergency equipment.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
2 May 2025
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But this was still just the flip of a coin, essentially.—
Ruthie Ackerman,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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Customers, who had access to more than 20 crypto coins at the time, were either shunted to Blockchain.com or liquidated their holdings.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
29 Apr. 2025
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The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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In reaction, investors are bolstering their portfolio defenses, diversifying assets away from the U.S., adding to short-term Treasurys, stocking up on gold and seeking currency hedges amid fear that the risk for both the economy and the stock market is to the downside.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
25 Apr. 2025
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The fine granules will dissolve in the dough and impart subtle mocha notes, adding a deeper, more complex flavor to your cookies.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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Similarly, frozen or refrigerated biscuit dough averages 528 mg (23% DV) of sodium per biscuit.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Scratch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scratch. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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