scrawl

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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

The BBC has seen a copy of the judgement which includes the report and a two-page prescription which shows the doctor's unreadable scrawl.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 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

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

Tally opened it up and saw a scrawl of letters.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld