rough draft
Example Sentences
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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
If journalism is democracy’s rough draft, as the saying goes, transparency is the paper it’s printed on.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025
“Companion” is 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
When it was ready in a readable rough draft, I telephoned him.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
