rough draft
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“You’ve always got to prove it as a writer,” says McDonagh, a seven-time nominee, in an interview near his home in London while paging through his rough draft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
By then Warsh will have voted on interest rates at least twice, sat through one Treasury refunding announcement, and presided over the rough draft of his proposed Fed-Treasury accord.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
The barrister, who was used to arguing points of law in court, now sat down to write the first rough draft of a proposed new law.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
Instead, “Companion” is content with being a rough draft of a movie about objectification, a lazy first pass that hopes its audience will mistake the insinuation of progressivism for the actual philosophy.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
“It is just a rough draft, you know. I shall alter a lot before I send it in.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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