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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 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 In those brownstones, the icons scribbled about notepads and surrendered those eternal drafts to thin paper zines. —Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 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 Gradually, the forest of memorabilia began to thin out, though bare objects kept popping up in place of those Federer had already scribbled on. —Owen Lewis, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026 The 68 photos released by the Oversight Committee Thursday also include several photo closeups of words scribbled on a back, foot, hip and a woman’s chest. —Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
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 In those brownstones, the icons scribbled about notepads and surrendered those eternal drafts to thin paper zines. —Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 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 Gradually, the forest of memorabilia began to thin out, though bare objects kept popping up in place of those Federer had already scribbled on. —Owen Lewis, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026 The 68 photos released by the Oversight Committee Thursday also include several photo closeups of words scribbled on a back, foot, hip and a woman’s chest. —Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scribbled
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The paper was scrawled with phone numbers of politicians to call and driving distances to dialysis centers in the region.— Arielle Zionts, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
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The post stitched together photos of Bible scripture, Paul crying, pain relief patches and personal notes scrawled through notebooks.— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
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Raphael’s father could manage people below him but also, as a courtier who wrote an entire epic about the life and exploits of Duke Federico, flatter the powerful above him.— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Kate recently wrote to us with a great question.— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
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Fans who watched the series will notice the musical follows the plot of season 1 fairly closely, with most of the book — penned by Cinco Paul, who co-created the series with Ken Daurio — lifted nearly verbatim from the six-episode series and condensed into a two-and-a-half-hour evening.— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
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Based on the novel entitled The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman, Bier directed a script penned by Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett.— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2026
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