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hen track

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Definition of hen track

as in hen scratch

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Forward Trent Frederic was a healthy scratch, while defenseman Jake Walman returned after missing the past three.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
Using a scrub brush on your glass cooktop will create scratches over time.

— Sarah Everett, The Spruce, 2 Nov. 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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Many of the edit tools can also be applied to multiple pages at a time, including edge cropping, hole filling, handwriting erase, and standardization (such as for scaling or background color processing).

— David English, PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026
Federal prosecutors allege that the handwriting in that message was matched with the new batch of letters through a handwriting analysis.

— CBS News, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of handwriting

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This script justifies that lame happy ending with a clever idea about the radiation sickness that results from suffering a blast of the creature’s atomic breath.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Bringing the project to fruition also had personal significance for Adam, whose late mother, Michele Rifkin, penned the original script for a PBS screenwriting competition in 1986.

— Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of script

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