SCRATCHING (OUT) Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

scratching (out)

verb

present participle of scratch (out)

as in writing

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 deleting

to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it scratched out the old phone number and wrote in the new one

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stetting

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Ayham Nadeem Assi, 22, of West Bloomfield, was charged by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald with one count of hate crime for allegedly writing an anti-Black racial slur on a Novi couple's driveway, prosecutors say.

— Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Yurlady eventually acts as peacemaker, writing to the daughter that her father is a decent man, and didn’t hurt her.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

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Talk about meeting The Challenge — the latest challenge to the Swedish version of the popular reality-TV show has met its match by way of an apparent AI agent, which is being blamed for deleting its entire new season.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
Jarvis sacrifices himself to stabilize Vision’s mind, deleting his code and shifting his processing power to the other AIs to keep them functional.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

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Organizers have held discussions around allowing overseas executives to participate virtually, Reuters reported last week, and The Wall Street Journal said that some executives are already canceling meetings.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Mission Control faced the prospect of aborting the landing, but Margaret's ingenious programming allowed the system to prioritize essential tasks while canceling the inessential ones.

— Dean Robbins, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026

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