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scribbled

verb

past tense of scribble

as in scrawled

to write or draw hastily or carelessly she scribbled a quick note on the pad by the door before leaving

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as in wrote

to compose and set down on paper the words of he scribbled a quick note to his wife and taped it to the front door

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Recent Examples of scribbled However, over that time, the amounts typically scribbled or printed on the face of those checks rose. — Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 24 July 2026 With so much data to take in, penalty ‘cheat sheets’ have started to appear on goalkeeper’s bottles and scribbled on pieces of paper. — Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 July 2026 One $10,000 loan, memorialized in a note scribbled in Vietnamese, called for $100 a day in interest. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 Her Eras Tour, the really beautiful white gown with her lyrics that were scribbled across the dress that was custom Vivienne. — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 30 June 2026 Abraham Lincoln furiously scribbled in Springfield on June 27, 1858, firing off a gruff note to the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Press & Tribune, then in business for only 11 years. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026 Interviewers often leave meetings with random observations scribbled on a notepad. — Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 The two teenagers who walked into a San Diego mosque with assault rifles on Monday wore patches displaying the Black Sun—a neo-Nazi iteration of the swastika—and had scribbled white-supremacist symbols in white correction fluid on their guns. — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026 For half-laughs as well as clarity, a lot of the mission’s step-by-step details appear on the screen, as wee notes scribbled right on top of the action. — Michael Phillips, Variety, 16 May 2026

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The cat had blood pouring from its mouth and was surrounded by arcane symbols scrawled on the walls, court documents show.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
Pinned to their random assortment of hats were scrawled, handmade signs proclaiming liberty or death.

— Sarah M.S. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

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Lawmakers from both parties wrote aggressive budget caps in 2017, when Republicans held half the seats in the Senate.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
Harrelson wrote, directed and starred in Lost in London, the first feature film shot in a single continuous take and broadcast live to theaters.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026

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