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sketch

[skech] / skɛtʃ /




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Like your tax-filing status, what matters for general advice is a sketch of your situation, not the name of the company you work for or your exact salary.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

The sketch series also welcomed five featured players in 2025: Veronika Slowikowska,Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Ben Marshall and Kam Patterson.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

I don’t want to fat-shame anybody, but it reminds me a lot of the Monty Python Meaning of Life sketch where the guy says the weight for him blows up.

From Slate Jul. 12, 2026

At one point, Schwam and Gunther compare Byrd’s show to a “Saturday Night Live” sketch parodying it, in which Cheri Oteri plays Byrd.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2026

I turn the page to show her my sketch from this morning.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

They are preserved within one bound volume of 41 sketches.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

All the while, he and creative partner Cooper Tomlinson were trialling content online, mixing comedy sketches on TikTok and Instagram with horror shorts such as "The Chair" on their YouTube channel "That's a Bad Idea".

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

In this collection of sketches, filled with guilt and shame, pride and love, Mr. Coppola finds the meaning he craves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Many sketches pack in a number of ideas, which can make them feel wayward, some run out of ideas before they end, and even the best ones can go on too long.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

Joon slowly traces the pencil sketches of his new drawing with a sharp black felt-tip marker.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

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

Director Craig Gillespie is no stranger to turbulent filmmaking, and his “Cruella” commendably made an underserved villain into a fully sketched character, without overrelying on callbacks.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

Around 1485, Leonardo da Vinci had sketched a firing mechanism that dispensed with the need for a burning match.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 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

By the end of the evening, Sturtevant had sketched the first linear genetic map of half a dozen genes along a Drosophila chromosome.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

In 1994 a young Jeff Bezos drove from Texas to Seattle, sketching the business plan for a company that would become the state’s largest employer.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

The 41-year-old Northern Irish designer is considered one of the leading talents of his generation, but now needs to convince and cement the new identity he's sketching out for Dior Homme.

From Barron's Jan. 18, 2026

It’s green everywhere, and people are sitting under the trees sketching in the afternoon sun.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman




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