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Each death is a daub of paint on a vast canvas, but for the bereaved, each opens up a gaping chasm of grief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

Collage may indicate motion in Furey’s work, as in two pictures of dancers whose bodies are covered in patterns, whether more flower photos or rendered with line and daub.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 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

It makes the stone houses drip and the wattle and daub houses look soggy.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Mottled green daubs represent grass; lounging amoebic growths stand in for rocks, perhaps mountain peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

After another row or two, Daignault’s canvases become increasingly abstract, finally dissolving into blurred daubs of color against black fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

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

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

The kid had an “honest-to-God genius” for spotting, amid the roadside rocks and grassy rubble, and the brown glow of thrown-away beer bottles, the emerald daubs that had once held 7-Up and Canada Dry.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Prosecutors also allege that slogans including "Free Gaza", "Free Palestine" and "Gaza is not for sale" were daubed on the course and buildings, along with offensive messages directed at Trump.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

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

In my parent’s creamy bedroom I sat at Mum's dressing table, spiked my hair with L’Oréal hair mousse, daubed an Adam Ant stripe across my face, and held her opal brooch over one eye.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

But two experts who spoke to the Task and Purpose website, are more sceptical about the effectiveness of daubing tanks with symbols.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2022

Bright paintings adorn many buildings in the neigbourhood and workers are busy daubing steps and stone walls in cheerful hues of yellow and orange.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021

In the Republic of Ireland police are investigating the daubing of black paint on a monument to Christopher Columbus in Galway - a gift from the city of Genoa.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2020

When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife