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scribed

verb

past tense of scribe

as in filed

to mark with or as if with a line or groove carefully scribed two lines into the wood

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Recent Examples of scribed Though Leo’s lyrics are raw and scribed with vigor and delivered with a backing choir that breaks down into soprano, alto, and tenor vibrato, the track feels too theatric and out of step sonically with the rest of the album. — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025 Instead of one community, which might be de- scribed as democratic, there appear separate and distinct communities that must be de- scribed as totalitarian. — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025

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The University of Arizona Police Department, which filed the search warrant, said on Tuesday that the investigation was ongoing.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Davis’s letter follows a separate ethics complaint filed by a conservative watchdog group to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over Slotkin’s University of Chicago remarks, first reported by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026

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But the divisive veteran Israeli leader has scratched, scraped and literally battled his way back during a stormy three-year period of nonstop domestic crises and wars across the region.

— Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Vaginal tissue very easily can get scratched and can bleed, depending on how smooth the wicker is.

— Rachel Handler, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

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But Schlittler grooved a 95-mph cutter to Grissom in the seventh, and the Angels first baseman drove it over the center-field wall for a a 1-1 tie.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Oswalt grooved a get-me-over fastball for a strike, then Mueller drilled a hard ground ball that third baseman Morgan Ensberg stabbed.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

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