scratching out

In 2016, Trump won a seeming black-swan election, scratching out victory by fewer than 80,000 votes in three states.

The story of her writing “Falling” is legend — on the red-eye, using her iPad and occasionally sketching notes on cocktail napkins, scratching out a book about a commercial jet that’s hijacked when a pilot’s family is taken hostage and he’s ordered to crash the plane.

I would exercise my First Amendment right to free speech—but in the old-fashioned way: by scratching out pamphlets with a quill pen and handing them out on the street.

Practical Move, the Santa Anita Derby winner who was considered a favorite for the Kentucky Derby before scratching out with a fever, dropped dead of an apparent cardiac event after finishing a morning gallop at Santa Anita on Tuesday, according to the Breeders’ Cup.

“We call it scratching out a line,” McNeill said.