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Recent Examples of scrawl
Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2024
The songs Dylan composes, scrawling the lyrics on notepads, often in the wee hours, consume and define him.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
Our names were scrawled onto a paper trail register, which only had a few other signatures before ours.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
Officials urged those near the coast who ignored evacuation warnings to scrawl their names on their arms with indelible ink so their corpses could be identified.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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Those words were scrawled on three shell casings found at the scene of the Dec. 4 shooting in Manhattan, according to law enforcement sources, and loosely echo the title of a book about why insurance companies deny patient claims.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2024
The songs Dylan composes, scrawling the lyrics on notepads, often in the wee hours, consume and define him.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
Our names were scrawled onto a paper trail register, which only had a few other signatures before ours.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
Officials urged those near the coast who ignored evacuation warnings to scrawl their names on their arms with indelible ink so their corpses could be identified.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrawl
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Facial hair and hats had been scribbled all over their portraits.Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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That night, a search of Beard's house turned up critical evidence, such as an envelope scribbled with incriminating notes.Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Tonally, the organization treaded carefully between seriousness and levity; with few previous models for this sort of organizing, members had to – as Frazier would later put it in a 1995 essay – do it from scratch.Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
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John is a good friend and has been an invaluable partner to me as co-founder, building Moonbug from scratch, raising investment, acquiring IP, and selling to CandleMedia/Blackstone.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
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His parents, Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith, were from old New England families that had fallen on tough times, wrote historian Richard Bushman in Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
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As a brainstorm for Nosferatu, Eggers wrote full novellas for each of the main characters.Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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According to Klippenstein, parts of the document are unintelligible due to Mangione's handwriting.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Other possible signs include handwriting changes (like smaller handwriting than normal), tremors or shaking even when resting, and trouble walking (like a very slow or shuffling walk, or balance issues).Jessie Van Amburg, SELF, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Scrawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrawl. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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