doodle
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There are also synchronized motocross jumps in front of the White House, which feels like a 12-year-old’s doodle come to life.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
They were able to save a few mementos, such as a doodle Springsteen drew as a gift for Clearmountain’s wife’s 50th birthday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
Only, oopsie doodle, due to a serious knock on the head, Samantha forgot that she’s actually a CIA-trained black-ops agent.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
There are a lot of different looks for the drawings, partly a result of her loving every doodle I made.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
On the back of his left hand was a doodle of a cockroach.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
The enormous light-up can at the entrance features doodles of fireworks, a monster truck, and an eagle in American flag sunglasses.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
The dogs were all poodle-cross, also known as "doodles".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
The comics that began as office doodles during boring meetings grew into an empire for Adams with companion books, a short-lived animated show and an ill-fated burrito line.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
All along he poured his inexhaustible love of tricky form into doodles he calls “ambigrams.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
It shows two girls in niqab, vlogging, accompanied by really simple, ugly white doodles and words scratched on top of almost every image.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
In her teenage years, she doodled poems in her diaries and made up verses about physics to help her remember things for her exams.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Karl Rove doodled on his stupid whiteboard and talked about what viewers could glean from the numbers they already had.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2024
Hockney doodled away, drawing trees and houses and filling the bleak concrete space with swaths of color.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
When we pack up to leave, I notice I’ve doodled a huge mustache on my brother.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
A priest, noticing Pratt’s skillful doodling, bought him art supplies and showed him a collection of work by the Kiowa Five, a renowned group of early 20th-century painters who’d attended the school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
He shared memories of doodling on his pants, rap battling in the courtyard and skating down El Segundo Boulevard with dreams of being famous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025
His campaign repeatedly put him in positions to reach strategic audiences, as campaigns do down the stretch, and he spent each session essentially doodling with crayons on the wall.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024
He appeared more focused on doodling on a pad of paper than the news conference.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
I pulled out my tablet from my parka and started doodling.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
