scratch
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AI coding assistants detect errors and recommend improvements, but they didn’t make programs from scratch—until recently.
From Barron's
“Look at everything as if you were starting from scratch.”
From Barron's
Here, she shares her minimalist approach to restocking a kitchen from scratch, a smart pantry organization solution—and the crêpe recipe that rescued her from a cooking rut.
It was just beneath his skin where he couldn’t scratch at it or pick it like a scab.
From Literature
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With its British Christmastime setting, it scratches the same itch as “Notting Hill” or “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.