1
as in wrote
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 deleted
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it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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Verb
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Among them, Urbina wrote, was that a brief attorney-client meeting had been recorded.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
18 May 2026 -
In the post's caption, Foran wrote that the incident happened while his team was on a rotation up Everest at Camp 1.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 May 2026
Verb
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Flock Safety data is automatically deleted after 30 days by default.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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Charles has since apologized and deleted the offending TikTok, but the controversy continues, igniting social media discourse.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Verb
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The current script is being penned by Jeff Chan with previous drafts by Dana Fox, Katie Dippold, Adam Sztykiel, Jenny Jaffe, Lindsey Beer and Tamara Becher-Wilkinson (from a treatment by Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Lennon).—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
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The current script is being penned by Jeff Chan with previous drafts by Dana Fox, Katie Dippold, Adam Sztykiel, Jenny Jaffe, Lindsey Beer and Tamara Becher-Wilkinson (from a treatment by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon).—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
18 May 2026
Verb
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After the case was announced, Kenya’s president canceled multimillion-dollar airport expansion and energy deals with Adani.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Developers have canceled at least 20 data centers in the first three months of this year due to local opposition.—
Cooper Katz McKim,
NPR,
18 May 2026
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“Scratched (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scratched%20%28out%29. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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