scrawl
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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
They had even managed to scrawl a message in Hebrew on the wall of a building, trying to alert the army to their presence.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2023
The Cranes Conquer America was written at the top in Emily’s eight-year-old scrawl, back when she was into putting smiley faces inside her e’s, o’s, and o’s.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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