sketch
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In a post to X on Monday, the "Turn Back Time" singer wrote: "My dear Bob has gone up to heaven. Knowing him, he's bringing sequins, beads and his sketch pad. Good nite sweet Prince."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
His design career started as a sketch artist for Jean Louis, a French-American costume designer.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“I just have to finish this sketch and FedEx it off to Paris, then, how about you and I go out to lunch—and spend the rest of the day getting lost in Harrods?!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
It was even at the center of a “Saturday Night Live” sketch featuring singer Dua Lipa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Presently she laughed and showed him a small sketch of Jo in her scribbling suit, with the bow rampantly erect upon her cap, and issuing from her mouth the words, ‘Genius burns!’
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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Famous for its walls bearing scribbles and sketches left behind by patrons for over 60 years, El Batey, a bar in Old San Juan, is a Puerto Rican institution serving locals and tourists alike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ullom has a few silly sketches on YouTube, and even scored a partial investment from a subscriber, but he hasn’t posted on the platform in more than five years.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
To better understand how the bodies were placed and how the burial chamber evolved, the researchers excavated the space, photographed the mummies, and created detailed sketches and descriptions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Osborne, who is best known for posting crude comedy sketches on YouTube, launched her podcast series earlier this year.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Leonardo sketches out a monumental statue, rising some twenty-five feet high.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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According to Terekh, the first ideas for what would become the FP-1 drone were sketched on a napkin in their favourite restaurant in late 2022.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Director Craig Gillespie is no stranger to turbulent filmmaking, and his “Cruella” commendably made an underserved villain into a fully sketched character, without overrelying on callbacks.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
It glides by smoothly, and Ms. Mann’s lilting, melancholy songs are hypnotically lovely, but the characters’ anguish and psychological distress are only faintly sketched in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The EFL says that it makes contingency plans for all of its matches at Wembley, so alternative arrangements had already been sketched out before Spygate emerged.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Laying aside the article, he sketched out a linear accelerator to drive protons to a million volts, the first major step toward satisfying Ernest Rutherford’s demand for 10 million volts.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Hoge spent a week holed up in a conference room with Moderna’s top chemical engineer, sketching designs and estimating the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
For years following, back in the U.S., he traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard sketching or painting as many of the signers as were still to be found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
In her song Wi$h Li$t, from her last album, Swift fantasised about settling down with Kelce, sketching out an idyllic future in which they have "a couple kids" and "a driveway with a basketball hoop".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Partis was also sketching the heron as he watched.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
I sit on his bed, sketching different kinds of dresses.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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