draw on

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An animated trailer appears to draw on the story of Korean students whose singing of the song US anthropologist Alice Fletcher recorded on a cylinder phonograph in Washington in 1896.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

How did you draw on this uncertainty to build the reader’s sympathies for the character?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

But private-credit shops that run interval funds and business development companies also draw on credit lines extended by banks to cover the outflows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Enhanced DBS checks draw on records from the Police National Computer and local police intelligence.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

"But it's just a poster from the gift shop. I've got high-quality digital maps on my computer—" "Nope. I can't draw on those," he said.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir