doodle
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There are also synchronized motocross jumps in front of the White House, which feels like a 12-year-old’s doodle come to life.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
They compared popular designer doodle breeds - cockapoos, labradoodles and cavapoos - to their purebred parent breeds across multiple behaviour categories.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Only, oopsie doodle, due to a serious knock on the head, Samantha forgot that she’s actually a CIA-trained black-ops agent.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
Cavemen, famously, liked to doodle on the walls with pigments ground from charred wood, stone, bone and minerals, bound with plant sap and animal fat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Anya watched his doodle turn into a crude drawing of Zvezda.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The enormous light-up can at the entrance features doodles of fireworks, a monster truck, and an eagle in American flag sunglasses.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
The results showed designer doodles differed from their purebred parents in just over half of all comparisons.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
The comics that began as office doodles during boring meetings grew into an empire for Adams with companion books, a short-lived animated show and an ill-fated burrito line.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
All along he poured his inexhaustible love of tricky form into doodles he calls “ambigrams.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
A lot of times, I let my feelings out in my doodles.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
In her teenage years, she doodled poems in her diaries and made up verses about physics to help her remember things for her exams.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Karl Rove doodled on his stupid whiteboard and talked about what viewers could glean from the numbers they already had.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2024
Hockney doodled away, drawing trees and houses and filling the bleak concrete space with swaths of color.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
For inspiration, she doodled in the margin of the page.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
A priest, noticing Pratt’s skillful doodling, bought him art supplies and showed him a collection of work by the Kiowa Five, a renowned group of early 20th-century painters who’d attended the school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
His campaign repeatedly put him in positions to reach strategic audiences, as campaigns do down the stretch, and he spent each session essentially doodling with crayons on the wall.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024
He appeared more focused on doodling on a pad of paper than the news conference.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
The only relevant purpose I can see for this conceptual doodling, however well carried out, is to give the fifth Broadway incarnation of the 1966 show a distinctive profile.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
I kept my eyes away from the door, doodling idly on the cover of my notebook.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
