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Instead he looks for scat and footprints, which were harder to spot in the winter because of the frozen ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

While speaking with The Times in his front yard on Wednesday, Johnson noticed a fresh pile of bear scat in the lawn next door.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

Newly christened, she became known for scat singing, a vocal style that originated with ragtime - which enabled her to improvise melodies using her voice as an instrument.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

For music, the show has an original score by the veteran trombonist Craig Harris, played by a jazz band that includes three vocalists who do sometimes scat.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

He's tumbled that the ransom note ain't worth scat.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

“I don’t know what happened,” Manley said, describing the improv session, “but I’m telling you, I blacked out and bee-bopped and scatted all over that room, like George Costanza would say.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

On “Bebop,” by his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, El’Zabar scatted the melody along with the horns.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022

After they climbed off Parker, the Sparks scatted about the court. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2016

The beautiful public baths, just off Twenty-third Street on Asser Levy Place, across from Peter Cooper Village, are like a pun on the defeat of the rebel forces that scatted here, headed north.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2015

Coming out of the river bottoms, I scatted up a long hogback ridge, and broke out on top in the flats.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

One of the album’s most popular songs, “Show Me the Way,” features Mr. Frampton scatting through the talk box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

Turner’s playful scatting seems to animate Michele Byrd-McPhee’s similarly scatting feet.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

It’s only three words, but it sends her into a tailspin of disbelief and exuberance — a sentiment Scherzinger expresses by sliding on furniture, scatting from atop a piano bench and singing while upside-down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

Scooby-Doo’s name came from Silverman, who had heard Frank Sinatra scatting “doo-be-doo-be-doo” on a recording of “Strangers in the Night,” and whose own name was used for Fred, the group’s ascot-wearing leader.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2020

We’ve been laying our voices down, catting and scatting, and following variations of the same notes for so long we didn’t always know we were doing it.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia