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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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The AI app will then generate feedback based on how they performed and give them a score out of 10.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Each defence is given a score out of five they must achieve depending on their importance.

From BBC Feb. 10, 2026

The Clippers didn’t score out of the timeout but got a break when Russell Westbrook missed a fast-break layup, and Powell made a three.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 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

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 John Augustus O'Shea

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