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score out

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verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to delete or cancel by marking through with a line or lines; cross out

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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During its routine inspections, the Environment Agency gives flood defences a condition score out of five.

From BBC Dec. 9, 2025

The Yankees put the score out of reach with a five-run rally in the eighth against Brent Honeywell, three of which scored on Gleyber Torres’ game-icing blast.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2024

Hurts passed for 380 yards despite sitting the majority of the fourth quarter with the score out of hand.

From Washington Post Dec. 5, 2022

“My lowest round, my lowest score out here, it was pretty much a perfect week,” Rahm said.

From Seattle Times Oct. 10, 2022

The question by which the Ministry had elected to stand or fall was put to the test, and exactly nineteen Radicals, less than a score out of over two hundred, voted in the opposition.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

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