scribbling
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Jack McGrail and Aiyana Da’Briel, staff leaders for the SoLa Live Accelerator program behind the event, seemed to be everywhere at once, passing out wristbands and scribbling on clipboards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
But even mathematicians were astonished when OpenAI announced that one of its models resolved a puzzle known as the unit distance problem without the help of any humans scribbling a bunch of equations on chalkboards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
They moved on to a client tender and she was scribbling notes.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2026
And earlier this month United defender Noussair Mazraoui was recorded comically scribbling half-hearted signatures on a set of shirts given to him by a hunter who approached him at his car window after training.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
I lean over to see what he's doing; he's scribbling on the leaflet, figuring math problems in the margins.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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