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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

They're checking that their daub of Harry Kane, envisaged to occupy an entire wall, is complete.

From BBC ● May 28, 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

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

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

The painter adds, as grace notes, eight daubs of red, two no larger than a speck, to the prevailing gray.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

“Rolling Stone” is spacious and ethereal but not directionless — it is R&B that privileges mood over structure, soft daubs of feeling over authoritative belting.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

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

Amid the long-running protests, people playing the character increasingly use different color face paint, including daubs of soot.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021

He was the painters idea of a man, simply daubs of paint, nothing more.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Its walls were daubed with red-lettered graffiti insulting French police and signed with the date of the riots, 17 October.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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

With the campaign heading into the homestretch, Gluesenkamp Perez recently embarked on a RV tour of the 3rd Congressional District, down twisting two-lane roads, past farmland and forests daubed with red, yellow and orange.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024

“Yes, sisters and brothers, the old schoolhouse, the first schoolhouse – the log schoolhouse, with its stick chimbley daubed with clay.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The final episode ended with Sullivan's Jimmy Corkhill daubing a "d" on the street sign so it read "Brookside Closed", before driving out of the cul-de-sac.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025

French prosecutors said earlier this week they were investigating whether two Moldovans who admitted to daubing Stars of David on the walls of Parisian properties did so at the behest of someone abroad.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

Several times he said that he had finished, but after pausing a few seconds, he would return to the canvas, daubing and smudging and spilling again.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2022

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