scrawl
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He meets his slightly older schoolmate Olympia, one of Eggers’ most beguiling creations, when she implores him to scrawl scatological bathroom graffiti on a playground structure in Old-English typography.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Like other chimpanzees at the centre, Ai would scrawl marker pens over blank paper without having to be motivated by food rewards.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
Managers can issue warnings to baristas who repeatedly write on customer cups ahead of time, scrawl something inappropriate or fail to use a Sharpie, according to internal guidance on the mandate to Starbucks stores.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 20, 2025
You’d scrawl your signature on each of the 25 cards, stuff them into their flimsy red envelopes and address them, painstakingly, to each member of your class.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024
He recognized the untidy scrawl on the brown paper at once: this was from Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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