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Recent Examples of scrawled
Mester will slide down to his tiny kitchen at one end of the bar and cook you something from a chalkboard menu freshly scrawled each morning.
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The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
One might be casually scrawled on the back of an envelope, while another comes on formal letterhead.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
On the firearms and magazines used in the attack, the shooter scrawled the names of other mass killers, ranging from the Unabomber to the Columbine attackers to the Tree of Life synagogue shooter.
—Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
The crushed garter snake is scrawled on the tarmac in an ampersand.
—Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Rolodex cards with famous names scrawled on them are a museum unto themselves.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Ahead of the deadly attack at a Minneapolis church, the shooter scrawled the names of previous mass shooters on their firearms.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Imamura sat back and watched as Hokazono scrawled a series of character names and plot beats in rapid succession.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
After her death, tasks like cleaning out Mom’s closet and going through boxes of her professional documents, scrawled with her familiar doodles, went on for years.
—Jessica Alexander, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025
The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
One might be casually scrawled on the back of an envelope, while another comes on formal letterhead.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
On the firearms and magazines used in the attack, the shooter scrawled the names of other mass killers, ranging from the Unabomber to the Columbine attackers to the Tree of Life synagogue shooter.
—Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
The crushed garter snake is scrawled on the tarmac in an ampersand.
—Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Rolodex cards with famous names scrawled on them are a museum unto themselves.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Ahead of the deadly attack at a Minneapolis church, the shooter scrawled the names of previous mass shooters on their firearms.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Imamura sat back and watched as Hokazono scrawled a series of character names and plot beats in rapid succession.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
After her death, tasks like cleaning out Mom’s closet and going through boxes of her professional documents, scrawled with her familiar doodles, went on for years.
—Jessica Alexander, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrawled
scribbled
Verb
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The 'why wall' In a room at Fort Jackson next to the paved outdoor area where trainees strain through sweaty workouts, one wall is covered in scribbled-on sticky notes.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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Editors scribbled notes in Moleskines while assistants timed each exit.—
Karissa Mitchell,
Essence,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Scrawled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrawled. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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