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Recent Examples of scrawls
Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
Hope scrawls a single word on the paper and folds it up.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrawls
Verb
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But when Ava makes a bathroom trip, Deb hastily scribbles something in her notepad.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 May 2026
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More tournaments to come While Yount has developed a near-superpower of watching 12 mats at once, Smith, for the most part, relaxes in his seat and enjoys the show at Ball Arena while Yount scribbles on his brackets.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Like the experimental teeth, the ones from Neanderthal archaeological sites had the same overlapping small fractures, shallow indentations, and shallow scratches.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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An upper-body injury knocked him out for a significant period but there were also healthy scratches mixed in.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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“Scrawls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrawls. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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