scribbling

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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

Scenes of Redford and Hoffman taking phone calls and scribbling down notes, or poring over library slips in desperate search of a kernel of a lead, were thrilling.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

Master Gogolev sat scribbling his poems and sobbing in a corner, where he could safely be ignored.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood