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scribbled

verb

past tense of scribble

as in scrawled

to write or draw hastily or carelessly she scribbled a quick note on the pad by the door before leaving

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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 However, over that time, the amounts typically scribbled or printed on the face of those checks rose. — Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 24 July 2026 With so much data to take in, penalty ‘cheat sheets’ have started to appear on goalkeeper’s bottles and scribbled on pieces of paper. — Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 July 2026 One $10,000 loan, memorialized in a note scribbled in Vietnamese, called for $100 a day in interest. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 Her Eras Tour, the really beautiful white gown with her lyrics that were scribbled across the dress that was custom Vivienne. — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 30 June 2026 Abraham Lincoln furiously scribbled in Springfield on June 27, 1858, firing off a gruff note to the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Press & Tribune, then in business for only 11 years. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026 Interviewers often leave meetings with random observations scribbled on a notepad. — Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 The two teenagers who walked into a San Diego mosque with assault rifles on Monday wore patches displaying the Black Sun—a neo-Nazi iteration of the swastika—and had scribbled white-supremacist symbols in white correction fluid on their guns. — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026 For half-laughs as well as clarity, a lot of the mission’s step-by-step details appear on the screen, as wee notes scribbled right on top of the action. — Michael Phillips, Variety, 16 May 2026

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Instead, there’s an impromptu memorial, formed from hundreds of tributes to the rapper scrawled in sharpie on poles and on the concrete.

— Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Shelving units in the garage are tightly, but neatly, packed with containers of various items, from Nike sneakers to Cold War-era relics, labeled with a description or lot number scrawled in black marker.

— Sarah Jackson Valentina Duarte, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of scrawled

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That's the view of Citadel Securities head of equity and equity derivatives strategy Scott Rubner, who wrote to clients on Monday that the bullish setup that carried the S&P to records in August is changing.

— Oliver Renick, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
The officers suspected the driver of a red Toyota truck was intoxicated, and stopped her near the intersection of 34th Street and Gillham Road, just south of Costco, the patrol wrote.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of wrote

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Treble’s office in central Reykjavík could stand in as an Arctic replica of Silicon Valley, with complex mathematical equations penned on meeting-room windows and a weight room across the hall.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2026
Jake Reiner previously penned an emotional essay about his parents' death in April.

— Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

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