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noun

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Verb
Related article Starbucks baristas are already complaining about doodling on your cups Starbucks’ sales have slipped for four straight quarters, the longest decline in years. Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025 All her works begin with drawings, evidence of her belief in the Surrealist tradition of doodling and automatic writing as ways to tap into the subconscious. Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
Its cream background is overlaid with fanciful doodles of oranges, farfalle pasta, wine, playing cards, and other feel-good finds that emphasize the beauty found in the ordinary. Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 12 Apr. 2025 Bern follows a clue the little girl had given her, a doodle of a sphere with an S and R inside, to the Spenser Ranch. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for doodle
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Verb
  • Still, Ordine thinks most wagering on the conclave is likely to happen informally among friends, similar to the squares people play for the Super Bowl.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 4 May 2025
  • As for Clark, who set numerous records while playing for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes before being picked up by the Indiana Fever during the 2024 draft, she is set to begin her second season with the team.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Given the global report from the IMF, these individual country case studies are live illustrations of the challenge ahead globally.
    Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Quick Dry This multi-purpose hair cream speeds things up while also tackling frizziness and other common vexations By India Knight Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop Read On Bust a Move Sun’s Out, Buns Out ’Tis the season to show them off.
    Tuppence Middleton, Air Mail, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Now, the two collaborate on drawings, and Clottey develops them into large canvas works.
    Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 8 May 2025
  • The next drawing will happen on Saturday, May 10, just after 11 p.m. ET.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • In his new work, Woods casts the racist, ragdoll-like caricature known as a Golliwog as the connecting overseer of the project.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
  • Caray died in 1998, but the tradition has continued with an array of celebrity guests belting it out from a TV booth adorned with the colorful broadcaster’s caricature.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These plans, however, do not appear in the outline.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • The enormous outline was silhouetted against the purpling sky like a mountain.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The singer was reportedly asked to be in a sketch with Madison, Bowen Yang, Chloe Fineman, Ego Nwodim, and Sarah Sherman, but declined.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2025
  • Saturday’s episode marked Arcade Fire’s sixth appearance on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • More than 400 landscapes, portraits, still lifes and sculptures — from folk Art and the Hudson River School through the modernist movements — will be on view.
    Tanya Mohn, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Things in Nature Merely Grow paints a loving portrait of each of her teenage children, who died nearly seven years apart, and details her own battles with depression and suicidal ideation.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Bags, from the iconic Monogram to the new Miami Jacquard, take on a beachy yet polished feel, while the footwear range reimagines classic beach-ready silhouettes in unexpected fabrics.
    Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 9 May 2025
  • Worth decided what women would wear, not by creating new silhouettes, but by changing the business model.
    Brian Ng, CNN Money, 9 May 2025

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