scat
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Researchers at UC Davis found cattle DNA in 72% of wolf scat samples collected in the summers of 2022 and 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
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
The lab report came back that it was indeed the scat of Felis concolor, the eastern mountain lion, also variously and respectfully known as the panther, cougar, puma, and, especially in New England, catamount.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
She sang open-throated declarations, recited broken poetic verses, scatted with the authority of a jazz singer, moaned with bluesy intent, and occasionally let loose an unbridled shriek or giggle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
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
One distinguishing feature of hunger I already knew was persistence: I, too, whenever I felt hungry, always returned to the source of food whenever I was scatted.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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
The first rule of ZAZ-style comedy is that you can’t ever appear like you’re in on the joke, which Anderson edges close to once when she breaks into a scatting jazz number.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
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
“Ancestral Duckets” is a sly waltz that roams purposefully through chromatic chord changes and sprouts a multitude of Muldrow’s vocals: harmonizing, scatting, riffing, taking over the melody and then playfully sailing above it.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2020
Okay, but after that, I'm scatting on the world, like a scoobidee doo day deeeee.
From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds
