scratch
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It also was a first for Green Dot, which typically had created new public charter schools from scratch, one grade at a time, to instill a strong culture of motivated families who assertively opt in.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026
Other firms have to build their policies from scratch.
From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026
The U.S. military is using nonstandard contracts and tasking defense contractors to design new weapons from scratch to cut years of production time and hundreds of millions of dollars off their cost.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 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
Neither the rough underside nor the polished top had a single scratch.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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