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scratch

noun as in small cut or mark

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verb as in cut; make a mark on

verb as in cancel

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In other industries, however, there may be an opportunity to update existing content instead of creating something from scratch that heavily overlaps with what you’ve already published.

By helping us get smarter together, community intelligence holds untapped potential of which we are just starting to scratch the surface.

From Fortune

This is certainly a good time-saver, but if you want to start again from scratch, that’s fine too.

Neural networks can learn these rules from scratch, by trial and error, but that takes lots of time, computing power, and data—all of which can be expensive.

From Fortune

What Dom and I have hit upon is a way to do everything from scratch that lets you start off working model-independently.

“You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.

“Scratch a liberal, find a fascist every time,” Woods tweeted in April.

People will always scratch and save if a sudden burst of unrestrained pleasure can be purchased.

Starting from scratch is never easy—and the team of journalists had serious competitors in Russia's state-owned media.

“In the past, my goal was to have you scratch your head and then maybe nod it,” she says.

But the Mexican caballeros had no notion of coming up to the scratch a third time.

Not so much, either; 'cause a chicken will stir round an' scratch a livin' out the ground, sooner 'n starve.

There was a fierce fight in which Dora came off victorious, with a scratch or two on her face and a torn dress.

She received the infection on a part of the hand which had been previously in a slight degree injured by a scratch from a thorn.

He must have had a pin stuck in his glove, for I felt a slight scratch across the palm.

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On this page you'll find 153 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scratch, such as: blemish, laceration, scrape, gash, graze, and hurt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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