sketched

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He sketched an idea on the back of his nine-year-old daughter's homework, he says, and soon showed it to an architect, partly expecting him to "laugh me out of the room".

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Acordagoitia sketched several table-top designs for the public to paint at the event.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

"Since Margaret Reed Lewis first sketched mitochondrial pearling in 1915, it has largely been dismissed as an anomaly linked to cellular stress," says Landoni.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

To her right stood Brandon Ross, whose searing yet disarmingly tender electric guitar tones built like waves, exploded like starbursts or sketched lines of staggering intricacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

People more advantageously placed than we in Harlem were, and are, will no doubt find the psychology and the view of human nature sketched above dismal and shocking in the extreme.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin