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as in wrote
to compose and set down on paper the words of
he scribbled a quick note to his wife and taped it to the front door
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Recent Examples of scribbled
As a kid, Bazzana scribbled hitting strategies into a little red book.
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Zack Meisel, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Melville, reading Emerson’s two essay collections in the 1860s, scribbled a mix of agreement and strong disagreement in their margins.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
Oz prepared to turn over a piece of paper with a name scribbled on it with a Sharpie.
—Weijia Jiang, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
The bodies, along with that of his six-month pregnant daughter-in-law, arrived in wooden coffins on a bus from Lebanon, their names scribbled on the sides.
—ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
Another video shared on Instagram, presumably taken at an earlier point, shows the same bot rumbling along to deliver some food with the same graffiti scribbled on its exterior.
—Joe Wilkins Published Mar 19, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026
Graduate students in tie-dye shirts worked under fume hoods; on the glass that protected them from chemicals, synthesis reactions were scribbled in black marker.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
School officials gathered and answered the questions scribbled on index cards.
—Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 2 Feb. 2026
At these delightfully divey watering holes, every visible surface is covered in dollars scribbled with the initials, anniversaries, hometowns, inside jokes, dates, or names of anyone who has darkened the doors of that particular bar over the past fifty years—or maybe just the past week.
—Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Zack Meisel, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Melville, reading Emerson’s two essay collections in the 1860s, scribbled a mix of agreement and strong disagreement in their margins.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
Oz prepared to turn over a piece of paper with a name scribbled on it with a Sharpie.
—Weijia Jiang, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
The bodies, along with that of his six-month pregnant daughter-in-law, arrived in wooden coffins on a bus from Lebanon, their names scribbled on the sides.
—ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
Another video shared on Instagram, presumably taken at an earlier point, shows the same bot rumbling along to deliver some food with the same graffiti scribbled on its exterior.
—Joe Wilkins Published Mar 19, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026
Graduate students in tie-dye shirts worked under fume hoods; on the glass that protected them from chemicals, synthesis reactions were scribbled in black marker.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
School officials gathered and answered the questions scribbled on index cards.
—Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 2 Feb. 2026
At these delightfully divey watering holes, every visible surface is covered in dollars scribbled with the initials, anniversaries, hometowns, inside jokes, dates, or names of anyone who has darkened the doors of that particular bar over the past fifty years—or maybe just the past week.
—Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scribbled
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Hate rocked the campus back in September The incident comes eight months after a freshman reported that someone had scrawled antisemitic graffiti on his dorm door.—
Jeff Capellini,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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One determined boy, maybe four or five, held a piece of green construction paper with a message scrawled on the front.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
Verb
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Trooper Brett Cook also fired one round at Williams, Prescott wrote.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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Pennington starred onstage in the tragedy about the Danish prince several times, and wrote multiple books on Shakespeare.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
11 May 2026
Verb
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The real stars here are John Kander and Fred Ebb, who penned a score that drips with melodic aspiration and lyrical cynicism, and Bob Fosse, whose erotically muscular choreography is the perfect match.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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Whether it was penned by Apa or some Brit with possessed hips, the song soon took off.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
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“Scribbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scribbled. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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