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Each death is a daub of paint on a vast canvas, but for the bereaved, each opens up a gaping chasm of grief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

They're checking that their daub of Harry Kane, envisaged to occupy an entire wall, is complete.

From BBC ● May 28, 2023

Collage may indicate motion in Furey’s work, as in two pictures of dancers whose bodies are covered in patterns, whether more flower photos or rendered with line and daub.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

They are generally pleasant if bland landscapes, rendered in small, precise daubs of thick paint, and they begin to appear by the mid-1870s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

After another row or two, Daignault’s canvases become increasingly abstract, finally dissolving into blurred daubs of color against black fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

The algorithm-driven daubs of pastel color, although they never cohere into legible images, “explore the heritage of landscape painting,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

Amid the long-running protests, people playing the character increasingly use different color face paint, including daubs of soot.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021

He stared at the daubs and streaks and runnels of red, and this newest mystery, it wasn’t a pathway of light burning lines through his mind.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

In the northern region of Asturias, graffiti has been daubed in recent days on holiday rental properties, with the slogan: "Your business, our ruin."

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Martine Letterie, one of the campaign's organisers, said concentration camps were increasingly the target of vandalism, including far-right imagery daubed on sites.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

Two women have been charged with criminal damage after Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey was daubed with orange paint.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

With the campaign heading into the homestretch, Gluesenkamp Perez recently embarked on a RV tour of the 3rd Congressional District, down twisting two-lane roads, past farmland and forests daubed with red, yellow and orange.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024

Shakily, he daubed circles on his heels, breastbone and forehead, As he finished the one on his forehead, he shut his eyes.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The series famously concluded with Jimmy Corkhill, played by the late Dean Sullivan, daubing a letter "d" on to the sign, leaving it as "Brookside Closed" before driving out of the cul-de-sac.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

French prosecutors said earlier this week they were investigating whether two Moldovans who admitted to daubing Stars of David on the walls of Parisian properties did so at the behest of someone abroad.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

Punishment was swiftly meted out for any public expression of Ukrainian patriotism — displaying a flag, singing a national ballad, daubing a bit of blue-and-yellow graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

In the Republic of Ireland police are investigating the daubing of black paint on a monument to Christopher Columbus in Galway - a gift from the city of Genoa.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2020

When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife