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Recent Examples of drawing board
The San Marcos Police Department union and city council are heading back to the drawing board after a surprising vote Tuesday night to rescind their most recent Meet and Confer agreement.
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Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2023
But the Sackett case could send the agency back to the drawing board, according to Paul Botts, the president and executive director of the Wetlands Initiative.
—Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2023
However, later on, issues might arise within the group, or a flawed plan could require you all to go back to the drawing board.
—Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
A number of potentially better reactor types have been stuck on drawing boards or at the experimental stage for decades.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Mar. 2015
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Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2023
But the Sackett case could send the agency back to the drawing board, according to Paul Botts, the president and executive director of the Wetlands Initiative.
—Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2023
However, later on, issues might arise within the group, or a flawed plan could require you all to go back to the drawing board.
—Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
A number of potentially better reactor types have been stuck on drawing boards or at the experimental stage for decades.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Mar. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drawing board
Noun
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The slugger will play first base.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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His ability to play third and first base also gives them important depth.—
Jim Bowden,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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Indeed, unless there is some inexplicable policy goal to get Americans to buy ladders, hammers, toilet seats, piles of bricks, washers, dryers, and garage doors online instead of at neighborhood stores, there is no reason why retailers need to become ground zero.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2026
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My doctor failed to warn me how this simple test placed me at ground zero of a medical firestorm.—
Howard Wolinsky,
STAT,
21 Jan. 2026
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Big names like Washington’s Bobby Wagner, New Orleans’ Demario Davis, Green Bay’s Quay Walker and Cleveland’s Devin Bush are durable, effective leaders in the middle who would provide day one efficiency.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Jan. 2026
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Now, that’s evolved into Xbox putting nearly all of its first-party games on rival systems like Switch and especially PlayStation, either on day one or after an unknown amount of time.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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That’s been around since the beginning of time.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Banfield's at-times tense testimony comes after his attorney scrutinized the county's investigation into the defendant, arguing that officials, almost since the beginning, forced a theory that the husband had catfished and killed his wife, and ignored evidence that undermined that conclusion.—
OLIVIA DIAZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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The continued success of this residency — which is the longest in Sphere history — is further proof of the undying love for the Eagles, which got their start as the backing band for Linda Ronstadt in 1971.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
25 Jan. 2026
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In the coming years voters will have to grapple with those changes and determine new benchmarks, both for the lights-out aces whose arms couldn’t hold up and the steady workhorses who rarely missed a start.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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The extreme water damage from rain and flooding caused an extensive mold problem in the half-finished home that required everything to be ripped out down to the studs, essentially setting the project back to square one.—
Marina Watts,
PEOPLE,
20 Dec. 2025
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Now back at square one, investigators are looking through tips and the evidence to move forward.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
16 Dec. 2025
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“Drawing board.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drawing%20board. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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