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Recent Examples of scrawl
Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Activists elsewhere have set fire to Tesla charging stations, scrawled swastikas into Tesla vehicles and sprayed graffiti on dealerships.
—Heather Knight, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Multiple vehicles were found spray-painted with swastikas, several of the dealership’s windows had been smashed and messages with profanity were scrawled on walls, the Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
—Christian Martinez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Electors scrawl handwritten votes on slips of paper.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Floor-to-ceiling whiteboards accrued scrawled information across three walls.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Activists elsewhere have set fire to Tesla charging stations, scrawled swastikas into Tesla vehicles and sprayed graffiti on dealerships.
—Heather Knight, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Multiple vehicles were found spray-painted with swastikas, several of the dealership’s windows had been smashed and messages with profanity were scrawled on walls, the Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
—Christian Martinez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Electors scrawl handwritten votes on slips of paper.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrawl
Verb
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Anthony scribbled themes and motifs from the English poet’s work.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2025
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Reed, a scientist and one of the smartest men in the world, desperately scribbles out calculations trying to find a way to save the planet.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Many organisations are using the EU’s framework globally as a benchmark rather than creating their own from scratch.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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And so Blomfield, who knows how to code, also tried his hand at vibe coding — both to rejig his blog and to create from scratch a website called Recipe Ninja.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
30 May 2025
Verb
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One study in The New York Times in 2020 showed that 95% of over 7,000 books surveyed were written by white people.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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For the cinephile who desires a reprieve from big-budget Hollywood movies, check out this charming French rom-com written and directed by promising filmmaker Laura Piani.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Forty-two students helped to transfer the original messages onto large river rocks, replicating not only their words but the original handwriting and drawings.—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
28 May 2025
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In addition, a double-sided leaf notebook that Lincoln used as a boy in school, which has the earliest surviving examples of his handwriting, sold for $521,200.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
23 May 2025
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“Scrawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrawl. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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