Synonyms
Examples for "scratch"
Examples for "scratch"
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The change would allow companies to build new commercial airports from scratch.
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Problem is, with a new virus, scientists have to start from scratch.
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This company was started from scratch and was delivered within a year.
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Or he'll take a new sheet of paper and start from scratch.
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The South Sudan government had to almost build the country from scratch.
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A headstrong approach will almost definitely rub others up the wrong way!
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But that's the rub: there are tens of thousands of civilians there.
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It was arousing to feel another's power rub against yours that way.
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Stew tomatoes slowly one-half hour; rub through strainer; heat and add soda.
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You have beaten Austria, it is true; but Russia-thereis the rub.
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I thought it was the result of the fray in the Tower.
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As always, political issues are starting to enter the fray, he said.
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Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
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They had been able to join the fray at a critical moment.
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They had been, in their time, in the thick of the fray.
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We fret over which areas will get flooded as sea levels rise.
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Unfortunately, for now, there is far more to fret about than celebrate.
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The lily may grow; the man must fret and toil and spin.
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We fret about mass extinction, but not enough to change our habits.
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Don't fret, because no qualifications are necessary to trade as an accountant.
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It was the last drop in the cup of gall, she thought.
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The cares of the world did not gall the shoulders of Mme.
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She often ate the bread of sorrow steeped in wormwood and gall.
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The gall of the bear is used as medicine internally and externally.
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Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
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I heard what sounded like scales of armor chafing together-slate ,ofcourse.
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The latter was worked up by the chafing speeches of the Marshal.
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The little princess lay in the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing her temples.
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Then might you have seen the Infantes of Carrion in great chafing.
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Her bra is chafing under her arms; it doesn't usually do that.
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The same rule applies to chafing upon any part of the body.
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To prevent such chafing the following program should be carefully carried out:
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And the first signs of chafing made themselves apparent beneath their armor.
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Within recent years the chafing dish has become very familiar to us.
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Plainly the recruits were chafing under the lash of the corporal's tongue.
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He walked up and down the parlour chafing like an irritated lion.
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He was thinking with the speed of a mind chafing at delay.
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As it was, he was chafing himself to death under the restraint.
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She then, kneeling down, assisted them in chafing his hands and feet.
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He and I sat by her side chafing her feet and hands.
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She adjusted the chafing strap, rotated the walker and they set off.
