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scrawl

[skrawl] / skrɔl /
VERB
write erratically
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The note, written in messy scrawl on lined paper, said, “They investigated me for month—Found nothing!!!”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Like other chimpanzees at the centre, Ai would scrawl marker pens over blank paper without having to be motivated by food rewards.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

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

On a night in mid-January, Isla Lester, a server at the Greek restaurant, took a few moments between customers to scrawl out the letters K-A-Y-L-E-E in orange marker on the side of a fresh candle.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023

I want to get a hobo outfit and a sandwich board and scrawl What now, Universe?across it.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon




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