doodle
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They found that in 82% of cases where one parent would display some problem behaviour, their doodle offspring were likely to show a more exaggerated version of that behaviour.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
At the bottom, one added a postscript—“Peut-être y a t’il autre chose en NZ”—along with a doodle, which has been endlessly parsed in the decades since.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 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
I doodle in my notebook, trying not to get nervous.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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 results showed designer doodles differed from their purebred parents in just over half of all comparisons.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Scribbles, doodles, crayon marks and stickers — evoking Lisa Frank and anime cartoons — have begun appearing on prominent Gen Z contemporary fiction covers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 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
Principal Principal sits back in his chair and doodles a hornet.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
She doodled on whatever surface she could find — in notebooks, sketchbooks, on her desk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 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
From the moment she could pick up a pen, she was doodling over everything possible - from school textbooks to spare scraps of paper.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 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
The only relevant purpose I can see for this conceptual doodling, however well carried out, is to give the fifth Broadway incarnation of the 1966 show a distinctive profile.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
I go back to filling in the seams of the baseball I’m doodling on the cover of my spiral.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
