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scrawl

[skrawl] / skrɔl /
VERB
write erratically
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Some AI workers won’t let bots do basic tasks, choosing to scrawl their meeting notes on paper and input calendar entries manually.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

The BBC has seen a copy of the judgement which includes the report and a two-page prescription which shows the doctor's unreadable scrawl.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

That Oscar-nominated film is far more gentle and sincere than “Challengers,” a trim, naughty, ferociously well-acted trifle about characters more likely to scrawl something foul on a bathroom stall than quote Heraclitus.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

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

That weird scrawl of small and large letters that slant to the left instead of to the right.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh




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