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Recent Examples of scrawl
Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
Wilson showed her a picture of their first tag, an illegible scrawl.
—Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
After her death, tasks like cleaning out Mom’s closet and going through boxes of her professional documents, scrawled with her familiar doodles, went on for years.
—Jessica Alexander, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Given that the real-life Warrens lived well into their old age, and their daughter Judy Spera now runs her own company for paranormal investigation (and, further, that the film has been heavily marketed as the final film for the fictional Warrens), the scrawl does seem a bit tepid at best.
—Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
Wilson showed her a picture of their first tag, an illegible scrawl.
—Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
Hope scrawls a single word on the paper and folds it up.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
After her death, tasks like cleaning out Mom’s closet and going through boxes of her professional documents, scrawled with her familiar doodles, went on for years.
—Jessica Alexander, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrawl
Verb
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The people who've had their eyes trained on central banks all over the world, for years, notebooks out, scribbling down their observations.—
Erika Beras,
NPR,
6 Sep. 2025
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The 'why wall' In a room at Fort Jackson next to the paved outdoor area where trainees strain through sweaty workouts, one wall is covered in scribbled-on sticky notes.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Avoid stacking pans without protection to prevent scratches and chips.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
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People are now created from scratch.—
Rohan Pinto,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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If National Public Radio had begun distributing Bibles and handguns, well, people would have wanted to talk and write about that, too.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Pearl Miles, 29, loved going through her husband's school yearbooks and reading through the personal messages written by his classmates.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Storytelling through craftsmanship Montegrappa Montegrappa’s role is not simply to manufacture pens but to preserve handwriting as a contemporary art form.—
Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Alexander was the first person to introduce orange wine to King, and the script on the bottle is in his handwriting.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Scrawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrawl. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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