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On busy nights, I’d estimate the wait, scribble down a last name, party size and pager number in black pen, then hand over a pleasantly hefty plastic puck.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Then, in April, the court said: Now that we have the full case before us, we’re going to summarily reverse the district court for the reasons set forth in our five-paragraph scribble from December.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

Based on a 2014 play by David Haig, who co-wrote its screenplay with its director, Anthony Maras, the movie faces an obvious challenge: Watching meteorologists scribble notations on charts isn’t particularly cinematic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

"I scribble and sketch, but shift quickly to the computer. I thought I'd write the whole manuscript longhand - by the third paragraph I gave up."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

It replaced the professorial lecture, the voice of authority, by a text in whose margin you could scribble your dissent.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He stacks bullet points along the side of the whiteboard, scribbles concepts and facts we throw at him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Even now, most of her lyrics exist as scattered notes and unfinished scribbles.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Meanwhile, the 2025 novel “Unfit” by Ariana Harwicz, about a mother losing her children in a custody battle, uses erratic crayon scribbles on its cover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

The duo quietly scribbles away, creating in the presence of one another, as pages of manuscript pile up.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

She scribbles a name—not mine, I imagine—and hands the ballot back to Mrs. Moore.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

We can credit the actor’s innate emotional agility for his commitment to every part, or a versatility earned over decades of playing many major heroes and villains the Bard scribbled onto parchment.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The summit register revealed roughly 40 names scribbled over the past decade, or what amounts to three or four people annually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Suddenly, she detoured to Target and declared “we’re combining,” and I dutifully rewrapped and scribbled a joint note for gifts that never felt quite right alone but together were perfect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Parton later quietly organized for Bandit to be surpised with a custom acoustic guitar, bedazzled with rhinestones and the words "To Brigitte, Love Dolly" scribbled across it.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

I scribbled a few sentences, crossed them out, then began again.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

He often made notes, scribbling in an A4 hardback notebook, and sometimes shook his head at parts of their testimony.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

It was finally done in a month of frantic scribbling and, when complete, caused eyes to pop.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

They moved on to a client tender and she was scribbling notes.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2026

While on vacation in France, he started scribbling an idea for a spy novel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Moody was sprawled on his bed, guitar beside him, scribbling in a notebook.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng