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hen track

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Definition of hen track

as in hen scratch

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But the scariest shocker was the resurrection of Devin Singletary, a healthy scratch in Weeks 3-5.

— Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026
Officers immediately responding to a citizen’s call found scratch marks above the store’s front door and the males gone, police said.

— Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of scratch

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At the center of it all is an FBI agent’s handwritten scrawl, detailing an alleged murder confession by a man who is missing and widely believed to have been murdered.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
The script is usually written in a nameless scrawl.

— John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026

Definition of scrawl

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The scribble-scratch of a notepad pushed against the silence.

— Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
But autos were precarious contraptions at the start of the 20th century, and America’s national system of roads was little more than a faint scribble on the map.

— Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of scribble

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Some look almost like handwriting, though there’s nothing to read.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Bahdanau was working with artificial neural networks, which had already shown promise in pattern-recognition tasks such as deciphering handwriting and identifying objects in photos.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

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