jotting
Example Sentences
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About 8,000 miles from the Middle East, where U.S. forces massed over the past month to prepare for war, Heather Griffith has been jotting a string of rising numbers into a notebook.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
Try jotting down three fractions separated by multiplication signs: earnings/sales x sales/assets x assets/equity.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
Williams recommends jotting down the fears about money that are holding you back.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024
The TV camera zooms in on David Moyes who is jotting down something in a notepad.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2024
Mr. Dalton paused, wet his lips with his tongue, and looked down over the small knot of men whose hands were busy jotting his words down upon their white pads of paper.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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