jot
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I’m looking for A.I. to help me jot down and store my thoughts in the right place when I’m not in a position to easily do that.
From Slate ● May 24, 2026
And I just jot it down, and sometimes it’s clearly funny as it is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Bring a paper copy of your passport with you, know where the embassy is located in the country you’re traveling to and jot down the country’s emergency phone number.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
Neither Kerry Ives nor Shannon Ives showed "even a jot of concern or care", the prosecutor said.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
“Look up the. telephone number of Berdeen’s Funeral Parlor for me and jot it down. I want to have it handy just in case.”
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
Whereas a caddie jots down notes in a yardage book, Morse keeps observations on his phone and refers to them year after year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
When Siri questions Killian, she jots down another observation: “hiding something.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Over the weeks, Margaret jots down in her diary what she sees.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023
Leno weighs them, takes their temperature and jots details of each visit by hand in a record book with a tattered yellow cover.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2023
I took five jots from my purse and scattered them onto the bar.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
With the writer’s blessing he jotted down their conversations and interviewed his friends and associates; McMurtry tolerated these intrusions “as long as he could pretend I wasn’t writing a book,” Mr. Streitfeld tells us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
They look nice together, but I jotted down a gut feeling that they’re not going to last.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Scott Sperry jotted his name down on a sign-up sheet.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
As prosecutors began to build a case that would culminate in Bankman-Fried’s convictions on seven fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy charges, the disgraced boy king of crypto jotted down 19 ideas to rehabilitate his reputation.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2025
When Ulbrickson got back to the hotel that night, he jotted a simple commentary in the logbook: “Quite a day.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Try jotting down three fractions separated by multiplication signs: earnings/sales x sales/assets x assets/equity.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
We’ve all sat across from people on laptops and smartphones and wondered whether they were jotting down bullet points or shopping early Black Friday deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Daydreaming his way through the galleries, jotting jokes in his notepad, is when he first gained an appreciation for the arts.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2025
Williams recommends jotting down the fears about money that are holding you back.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2024
I started visiting bookstores in Johannesburg with a notebook in hand and would read scores of tennis and exercise books, jotting down pointers.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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