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scribed

verb

past tense of scribe

as in filed

to mark with or as if with a line or groove carefully scribed two lines into the wood

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Recent Examples of scribed Though Leo’s lyrics are raw and scribed with vigor and delivered with a backing choir that breaks down into soprano, alto, and tenor vibrato, the track feels too theatric and out of step sonically with the rest of the album. — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025 Instead of one community, which might be de- scribed as democratic, there appear separate and distinct communities that must be de- scribed as totalitarian. — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025

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The plaintiffs swiftly filed new lawsuits after the Postal Service finalized its rule governing mail ballots.

— NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
In a 30-page order filed in the Southern District of Florida reviewed by USA TODAY, Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis denied a defense motion for the brothers' release.

— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

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In June, a black bear followed and then attacked and scratched a hiker in Golden, Colorado.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
The upstairs neighbors had two mastiffs who were left home all day and who barked incessantly and scratched at the floor of their kennel.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

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But Schlittler grooved a 95-mph cutter to Grissom in the seventh, and the Angels first baseman drove it over the center-field wall for a a 1-1 tie.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Oswalt grooved a get-me-over fastball for a strike, then Mueller drilled a hard ground ball that third baseman Morgan Ensberg stabbed.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

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