scribble
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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
Ava steps away for a moment, giving Deborah an opportunity to reach for her notebook to scribble a thought . . . then it happens.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
Watching Mr. White’s Springsteen scribble down lyrics doesn’t exactly make for a revelatory cinematic experience, however.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
"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 was a scribble to her, but somewhere in the world, she realized with a shock, it meant something.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unlike scribbles on a Post-it note, a password manager can be set to back up online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Ultimately for me, this season’s scribbles ended up looking something like:
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025
Malak picks up a pen from the headteacher's desk and scribbles over the photo.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Sherman’s childhood algebra book from 1829, complete with scribbles, had been bid up to $1,500.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2024
It was hard to make out the faint scribbles in the flickering light of the fire.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib furiously scribbled responses like “That’s a lie” and “No King” on a small whiteboard.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
Last month, I scribbled every form I’d need for my return on the envelope of the first 2025 income-tax form I received:W-2s, receipts, broker statements, etc.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
They scribbled messages over their pictures saying: “I couldn’t have done it without you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
Before 2008, he recalls, a clinician’s work was memorialized on paper: scribbled notes, doctor’s orders and thick charts parked at the nursing station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
So while I scribbled in the red dirt, Gus whistled and hoed.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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
As I turned the pages, I kept scribbling the same question in the margins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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
I noticed he was holding a crumpled ripped-out page of a comic book, and a little pocket-size notebook that he was scribbling in.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
Vocabulary lists containing scribble
The Write Stuff: Scrib, Script
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Essential Word Roots: Graph, Gram, Scribe, and Script
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: scrib, scribe
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