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He is a pliant enough actor to daub each portrait with just enough psychological color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Scully finds analogues in his home place for larger themes from art history, so in his 2015 “Doric Blue and Blue,” the grid resolves into the pure brushstroke, the squarish daub of Cézanne.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

In the absence of costumes or conspicuous floats, young people used their imaginations to daub eye-catching slogans on protest signs for the youth march.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2021

These early villages had wattle-and- daub houses, fine pottery, and some public architecture.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

They are generally pleasant if bland landscapes, rendered in small, precise daubs of thick paint, and they begin to appear by the mid-1870s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

That incident aside, the only minor troubles Cathala can remember from his 28 years as an elected official are a few “very rare” trash fires and occasional daubs of graffiti.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

“Rolling Stone” is spacious and ethereal but not directionless — it is R&B that privileges mood over structure, soft daubs of feeling over authoritative belting.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

The algorithm-driven daubs of pastel color, although they never cohere into legible images, “explore the heritage of landscape painting,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

He stared at the daubs and streaks and runnels of red, and this newest mystery, it wasn’t a pathway of light burning lines through his mind.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Martine Letterie, one of the campaign's organisers, said concentration camps were increasingly the target of vandalism, including far-right imagery daubed on sites.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

Taking her phone from her pocket she shows me pictures of the black and white IS flag, newly daubed on one of the walls of the camp.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

On the front steps, insults daubed in spray paint were directed at both Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

As well as paint being daubed on the stone, wreaths and flowers laid at the site had also been strewn about, the force said.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2025

And yet, I perceived that the young 24-06, denied most materials for expression, daubed pictures upon his master’s shoes.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The series famously concluded with Jimmy Corkhill, played by the late Dean Sullivan, daubing a letter "d" on to the sign, leaving it as "Brookside Closed" before driving out of the cul-de-sac.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

Prosecutors are also investigating whether two Moldovans who admitted to daubing Stars of David on the walls of Parisian properties did so at the behest of someone abroad.

From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2023

Punishment was swiftly meted out for any public expression of Ukrainian patriotism — displaying a flag, singing a national ballad, daubing a bit of blue-and-yellow graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

Several times he said that he had finished, but after pausing a few seconds, he would return to the canvas, daubing and smudging and spilling again.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2022

I wasn’t sure how he was going to get his boots back on, even after daubing the worst of the blisters with a paste made of baking soda.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson