- present participle of draw.
drawing
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But rising temperatures can play a more direct role by drawing extra moisture from the soil via evaporation.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Two corpse flowers nicknamed Odora and Odorysseus have bloomed at the San Marino conservatory, drawing thousands for the rare occasion and quickly surpassing last year’s numbers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The Bay Area’s AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
“I’m going to have to completely go back to the drawing board, rethink my life and probably start at the bottom in a new industry,” Abernathy said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
There on the page was a drawing of a person standing at an easel and painting.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Dan Coles, his son who now runs the business, said the moose was inspired by one of his own children’s drawings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Klee’s mysterious, poetic range comes vividly to life in “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,” a chronological survey of roughly 100 paintings, drawings and prints at the Jewish Museum through July 26.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Black persists in his brush drawings of the late 1940s—sumptuous, if monochromatic, ink-on-paper works, like 1948’s “Interior With Window and Palm,” that seem to fuse painting and drawing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The developers will next prepare construction drawings and take other steps in anticipation of breaking ground in about two years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
I put the Popsicle in a glass and flipped through my sketchbook for a clean page, but halfway through, I paused at the moon snail drawings.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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