from scratch

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And for good reason: Zimmern, who partnered with Casey’s on a seasonal pie, fell in love with the Midwest business after learning that each location makes its dough from scratch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

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

What you end up having to do is actually go through it again and redo all of it from scratch.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Inventing a writing system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond