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Recent Examples of scrawled
The last two generations came of age in a world where digital birthday cards are standard, signatures are scrawled awkwardly using a finger and to-do shopping lists no longer offer the satisfying opportunity to scratch out item after item.
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Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
In the nearly nine months since the shootings, her name has been scrawled on firearms used in other deadly attacks.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Wojick still has the numbers scrawled on his whiteboard.
—Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
The department also alleges that Jewish professors were assaulted, and swastikas were scrawled on UCLA buildings.
—City News Service, Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
Protestors prominently displayed a large Mexican flag, along with an upside-down American flag sign with a peace sign scrawled across it in black paint.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
Then, in January 1912, when the Broussards – another Black family – were murdered with an ax in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the local police found a Bible verse scrawled on their front door.
—Lauren Nicole Henley, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
Numerous Indian army camps thus dot these mountains, where slogans of guns and glory are scrawled on their walls.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
On the wrist straps are Street’s initials, scrawled in marker.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
In the nearly nine months since the shootings, her name has been scrawled on firearms used in other deadly attacks.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Wojick still has the numbers scrawled on his whiteboard.
—Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
The department also alleges that Jewish professors were assaulted, and swastikas were scrawled on UCLA buildings.
—City News Service, Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
Protestors prominently displayed a large Mexican flag, along with an upside-down American flag sign with a peace sign scrawled across it in black paint.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
Then, in January 1912, when the Broussards – another Black family – were murdered with an ax in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the local police found a Bible verse scrawled on their front door.
—Lauren Nicole Henley, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
Numerous Indian army camps thus dot these mountains, where slogans of guns and glory are scrawled on their walls.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
On the wrist straps are Street’s initials, scrawled in marker.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrawled
scribbled
Verb
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Another video shared on Instagram, presumably taken at an earlier point, shows the same bot rumbling along to deliver some food with the same graffiti scribbled on its exterior.—
Joe Wilkins Published Mar 19,
Futurism,
19 Mar. 2026
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Graduate students in tie-dye shirts worked under fume hoods; on the glass that protected them from chemicals, synthesis reactions were scribbled in black marker.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Scrawled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrawled. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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