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score out

British  

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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With a 4.4 grade-point average and a 1540 score out of possible 1600 on the SAT, Elbert has the brains to do whatever he wants.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

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

"I got the score out and looked at it again to remind myself of what the music would sound like," Sir James said.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 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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