doodle
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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
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
Sure, hearts were an ordinary doodle and easier to draw than even stars.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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
This plot doodles along, rarely going where we expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Jones suggests that, although the 80-page notebook suggests that "he starts off really trying hard", as you keep turning the pages Geisel's doodles "start to take up more and more of the notebook".
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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
I flipped past my homework and doodles and opened to the first empty page, then thought for a minute.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
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
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
She agreed reluctantly, then doodled all over the cover of her composition book.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
He coped with frustration by doodling during meetings and began developing the Dilbert character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
Growing up in Greater Manchester, he says his biggest childhood involvement with the sport was through doodling in football-themed colouring books.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
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 find myself doodling and beating on the notebook with my pen.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
