sketch
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Joining the BBC in the 1990s, she rose to prominence as part of the team behind the broadcaster's sketch comedy, Goodness Gracious Me!
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But so far, Tetlow noted, Warsh has been reluctant to even begin to sketch that out.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
We see Holbein’s image of Anne multiplying through an 18th-century oil portrait; Jacob Houbraken’s 1738 engraving and a constellation of miniature copies; and Queen Victoria’s sketch of Giulia Grisi singing in Donizetti’s opera “Anna Bolena.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Far from the solemn pomp of the Vatican, nestled under the arcades of the mountain town of Santarcangelo di Romagna, a tailor clad all in black leaned over his sketch.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The sketch of Rosamond’s portrait pleased him highly: he said I must make a finished picture of it.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Playing divorced designer Elizabeth James, Richardson has an on-screen boudoir that is a sanctuary for the working creative mother: charcoal sketches; wire-framed reading glasses; ’90s white cordless landline; creamy thank-you roses on the nightstand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Famous for its walls bearing scribbles and sketches left behind by patrons for over 60 years, El Batey, a bar in Old San Juan, is a Puerto Rican institution serving locals and tourists alike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ullom has a few silly sketches on YouTube, and even scored a partial investment from a subscriber, but he hasn’t posted on the platform in more than five years.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
To better understand how the bodies were placed and how the burial chamber evolved, the researchers excavated the space, photographed the mummies, and created detailed sketches and descriptions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
He had been refining his sketches of Persepolis ever since we got back.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Thatcher, though, was far and away the best part of both films, bringing a striking depth to her thinly sketched characters.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
According to Terekh, the first ideas for what would become the FP-1 drone were sketched on a napkin in their favourite restaurant in late 2022.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
The company has sketched out a future in which Starship is flying thousands of times a year, regularly deploying satellites and other payloads for customers and SpaceX’s own Starlink internet division.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The EFL says that it makes contingency plans for all of its matches at Wembley, so alternative arrangements had already been sketched out before Spygate emerged.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
I thought of Munch as I sketched, his theory that pain, love, and despair were links in an endless chain.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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Hoge spent a week holed up in a conference room with Moderna’s top chemical engineer, sketching designs and estimating the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
In her song Wi$h Li$t, from her last album, Swift fantasised about settling down with Kelce, sketching out an idyllic future in which they have "a couple kids" and "a driveway with a basketball hoop".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Partis was also sketching the heron as he watched.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
In sketching an outlook that might include either further cuts or a pivot to hikes, Waller joins a growing group of Fed officials who see the central bank’s policy stance at an inflection point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
She was splayed on her stomach near the lantern, idly sketching her own face into the yellow notebook Robin had given her.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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