Thesaurus results for SCRATCH (OUT)

scratch (out)

verb

Definition of scratch (out)

as in to write

to compose and set down on paper the words of scratched out a poem for his beloved wife on the home front

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as in to delete

to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it scratched out the old phone number and wrote in the new one

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Khalilzad on Friday wrote on X that there had been reports of Pakistan arming Afghans to fight the Taliban inside Afghanistan and of the Pakistani military recruiting Afghans to fight anti-Pakistan insurgents.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Inspiring others In 1981, Runner’s World magazine published an article that Godby wrote about his 1978 run.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026

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But that claim is difficult to reconcile with the disproportionate representation of certain groups among those deleted from supplementary lists issued for some constituencies after an adjudication process.

— Asim Ali, Time, 24 Oct. 2026
Meta describes this option as permanently deleting chat history, stored files and active tasks.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

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Reducing Gulliver’s Travels to only a topsy-turvy tale of humans both tiny and massive is to ignore the savage intellect that penned its words.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Luke Roberts and Justin Matthews, who penned the first film, also wrote the screenplay for the sequel.

— Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Oct. 2026

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Unlikely influencers, from foodies to mothers to retirees, are weighing in on Proposition 40, a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the state’s roughly 200 billionaires and on other ballot measures created to cancel it.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
The international governing body for soccer was allowed to cancel its extra reservations — up to 5,000 rooms per night — 120 days before arrival.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026

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