noodle
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The world's largest jewellery brand showed off bracelet charms featuring Vietnam's national flag and a bowl of pho noodle soup as it opened a manufacturing centre in the country on Thursday, its first outside Thailand.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Walters learned to noodle when he was a young child.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
I’ll probably get out the computer and noodle around on the book and see what I can come up with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Some fast-food chains offer a free birthday meal or snack - Burger King members can claim a free Whopper or Plant-Based Whopper, while Chopstix offers a free small noodle box.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
She began to think of her noodle restaurant again.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
A lawyer by training, he seems to function primarily by breaking any challenge into small pieces to be noodled over at tedious length one by one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The boy noodled with seashells as his grandfather cast.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
His first great muse, a Weimaraner called Man Ray, noodled around in front of the camera until Wegman decided to click the shutter.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019
At first our voices wavered, our raised arms noodled, and our overall mien lacked sternness.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2016
She noodled at me, I noodled back at her, and her eyes crinkled charmingly whenever I managed a smidge of tuneful wit.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Iñárritu first started noodling on the idea of what would become “Digger” after making the 2015 frontier thriller “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In a way, he says, noodling is an act of faith.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Overcoming the aerodynamic drag inherent with a trad-core design was a degree-of-difficulty multiplier for Rivian’s team, requiring lots of computer simulation and iterative, millimeter-scale noodling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
And you’re like, “I don’t know if I can jam. I was trying to write a song and now you’re noodling all over me. You know what? I’ll just put it down.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
And so, while at GTE, he started noodling a nonmilitary question, one that troubled him and he couldn’t shake.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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