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
In her free time, Annie loves to make random playlists, doodle in her reporter’s notebook and go antiquing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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 history while Mr. Pape reviews points of view.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Philippe recalled receiving illustrated letters almost every week, filled with drawings, doodles and notes of affection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
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
His doodles and notes helped me get to know him better.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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
And in “Decorator Malignin,” a bureaucrat doodled on the margins of documents during the endless, tedious meetings that made up his pointless working life.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
And sometimes, it seems like people just get bored, like the Whitney Museum guard who doodled “I Love you Tushee, Love, Buns” on a Roy Lichtenstein painting in 1993.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2022
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
On a notebook on her coffee table, she wrote Cynthia Renee Ortiz, doodling hearts around her prospective married name.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
He coped with frustration by doodling during meetings and began developing the Dilbert character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 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
He appeared more focused on doodling on a pad of paper than the news conference.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
Later, when I was doing my homework, I found myself doodling in the margin of my English book.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
