scrawl

Some AI workers won’t let bots do basic tasks, choosing to scrawl their meeting notes on paper and input calendar entries manually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

I’m a champion of the film, and so, too, I reckon is the cineaste I saw inside the Lightbox theater wearing a souvenir T-shirt who’d scratched out the “Toronto” with black marker to scrawl, “Winnipeg.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

The handwritten pink scrawl suggests a level of stress that is entirely understandable for the team putting on the biggest stadium tour of the year.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025

You’d scrawl your signature on each of the 25 cards, stuff them into their flimsy red envelopes and address them, painstakingly, to each member of your class.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

There were scraps of paper on which he had written his evil ideas in an illegible scrawl, lying in messy piles on top of the copy of Nuptial Law he had taken away from Klaus.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

Fun fact: Humanity’s first known scrawls were made by accountants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

On a notebook with “BE BEST” letterhead, Melania scrawls, “No phones.”

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026

By the end of October, the prime minister's frustration is obvious in the long note he scrawls at the end of a Covid briefing document marked OFFICIAL/SENSITIVE.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025

She scrawls out a note to Border Patrol and instructions for the next medical team, signing her name at the bottom as she would a prescription.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

Upon its knees and mighty chair, and all about the pedestal, were idle scrawls mixed with the foul symbols that the maggot-folk of Mordor used.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Earlier in our conversation, which veers rapidly across his prolific career, he held up a series of storyboards scrawled on white paper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Inside, travellers have left Greek scrawled on the walls, although it is not clear how old the writing is.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

So Sterling scrawled out songs of his own, drove overnight and showed up at the arena at 6 a.m. the next day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Looking at his police file, I can hardly read the signature over his statement; his name is illegible, scrawled and messy, like that of a boy.

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

I unpack the last box, the one with Michael Nelson scrawled on the side, holding all the videotapes.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

People who are immersed in AI often have some surprisingly old-fashioned habits, from scrawling meeting notes on paper to inputting calendar entries manually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

He’d been accused of scrawling “No to war!” on a building.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024

Wembanyama cheerfully signed autographs, scrawling his name onto basketballs and Spurs jerseys — some even with his name already on the back — before making his way into a waiting vehicle.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

And yet I was the only Beat the Clock patron that night, which had me scrawling a question in my notebook:

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2023

It took preparation, and maybe sitting in that minimall scrawling her plans was both intellectual and emotional practice—Margo’s way of imagining herself into her fate.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green