scribbling

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There’s documented marginalia and scribblings that suggest a serious reader, and anecdotes about her reciting poems at parties, reading Proust on set, and expounding on Whitman, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

Millions of tweets and Substacks and random scribblings to read.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

Many of Germany's newspapers are asking whether the immature, schoolboy scribblings of a teenager's brother should bring down a politician decades later.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2023

In this novel, a woman tries to reconstruct her dead mother’s emotional history using a handful of objects — a pink kimono, a notebook with cryptic scribblings.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022

It was through a clue from one of the scribblings that finally I cast a bait that Malcolm X took.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey