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EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
To the team’s first World Series title, with Hedges entering the hitters’ meeting before every postseason game in his jockstrap, marking the number of wins needed for a championship with eye black scrawled on his naked butt cheek.
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Daniella Pineda and Simmons also star in the film, though Simmons appears to spend most of the film as a corpse with a clue scrawled on his forearm.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
In Sydney, a synagogue was defaced with red swastikas spray painted along the fence, while a day care center was torched and scrawled with antisemitic slurs under the cover of night.
—Victoria Kim, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Isla delivers much of this information in the pilot via a sunny voiceover, punctuated by freeze-frame introductions of characters featuring their name and job title scrawled on the screen in meticulously messy yellow text.
—EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
To the team’s first World Series title, with Hedges entering the hitters’ meeting before every postseason game in his jockstrap, marking the number of wins needed for a championship with eye black scrawled on his naked butt cheek.
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Daniella Pineda and Simmons also star in the film, though Simmons appears to spend most of the film as a corpse with a clue scrawled on his forearm.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
In Sydney, a synagogue was defaced with red swastikas spray painted along the fence, while a day care center was torched and scrawled with antisemitic slurs under the cover of night.
—Victoria Kim, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrawl
Verb
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On his palm, faintly visible, were two sets of phone numbers scribbled with a ballpoint pen.—
Amitava Kumar,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
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Among them were fan mail, scribbled lyrics, copies of reviews, and a long letter from a student at Boston University upset about the school’s cancellation of a 1987 Ramones concert.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Nearly 80 Tesla vehicles parked outside the dealership had been damaged, including deep scratches and punctured tires, police relayed in a news release.—
Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2025
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Two weeks to design a team from scratch that could win in the brutally competitive Big Ten Conference and return Maryland to the NCAA Tournament.—
Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Under the law as written and passed by Congress, approximately 32 million companies were subject to the CTA in 2024, the first year the law was in effect.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Emily Mae previously wrote for outlets like the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed and Newsweek.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Luscombe suggests retaining all those envelopes with your mother’s handwriting.—
Liz Weston,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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The handwriting on the card and the envelope seemed to be from two different people, which the OP found strange.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Scrawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrawl. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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