scratch
Example Sentences
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Cooking a full-fledged meal from scratch seems too laborious.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
Microsoft says it built the model "from scratch" with "no distillation" of rival models -- a common shortcut that involves copying a competitor's outputs to train a new system more cheaply and quickly.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
It's better Clarke handles this rather than throwing in a newbie to start from scratch.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
But the speed demanded by the service also required building new systems from scratch.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
“No, scratch that! Let’s try it on Double Whaleback Hill!”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Vocabulary lists containing scratch
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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