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
As well as finished props and sets, the exhibition will feature work-in-progress material and maquettes - a small-scale model or rough draft of a sculpture or architectural work - organisers say.
From BBC • May 6, 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
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
They turned into themselves so steadily and inevitably that each seemed to be the original of yesterday’s rough draft.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
