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has scratched

  • present perfect of scratch (3rd person singular).

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Fried dough has scratched guilty pleasure for millennia.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2026

Later that day, I met a man named Mike, who has scratched out a living selling Cirque du Soleil tickets from a modest wooden stall underneath the colossal shadow of the Strip casinos.

From Slate Nov. 18, 2025

Mu has scratched from the 1,500, according to a social media post from U.S. fourth-place finisher Sinclaire Johnson, who wrote that because of the scratch she was given a world-championships berth.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2023

Junior hockey has scratched the itch for local die-hards, but just wait until the likes of Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin come to town.

From Seattle Times Dec. 4, 2018

On a pane of glass in one of the bedrooms he has scratched his name and the date "John Euelyn, 1641."

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh