jottings

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Among the other famous jottings that sold were those belonging to Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley, South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela and all four members of The Beatles.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024

Freist said she was “electrified” when archivists opened several letters and found jottings on chalkboard tablets that had only survived unerased because of their sudden seizure.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

The text, however, evokes a stack of index cards with jottings from an indefatigable researcher unbound by historical limits.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

Her lyrics are vulnerable but uncomplicated, as raw as journal jottings, or as slippery half-remembered inspirational quotes that floated out of the Internet and into the forefront of her consciousness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

And some of them bore jottings, also in Chinese, in their margins.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen