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notepad

[noht-pad] / ˈnoʊtˌpæd /


NOUN
scratch pad
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Arellano: Becerra is doing something that I always remember Obama doing that I really didn’t see him do during the primary: write on a notepad while his opponent is yammering on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

During a U.S. cabinet meeting on Friday, Reuters snapped a ‘To Do” list on Bessent’s desk notepad that contained a solitary entry: “Buy Japanese yen $5-10 bill.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

“I begin each morning with a head full of dreams, a notepad full of ideas, and a cup or two of coffee,” says Parton in the statement.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

I took out the notepad that the guard had given me, and dug around in the bottom of my backpack until I came up with a pencil that didn’t have a broken tip.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

Inside a hotel conference room downtown, rapper/vocalists Johnny and Taeyong and singers Jaehyun, Haechan and Yuta are dutifully seated at a table with iced coffees, pens and notepads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Every day in the courtroom, Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of OpenAI, took extensive notes on yellow notepads.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

Each section starts with Rhiannon and actor and interpreter Thomas Simper enacting extracts from Beethoven’s conversation books - notepads he carried to converse with his friends as he was losing his hearing.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024

Many of the jurors jotted notes throughout her testimony, peering up from notepads and alternating their gaze from Daniels in the witness box to the lawyers questioning her from a lectern.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024

There are drifts of paper and sketchbooks and notepads that have been swept off the desk and other surfaces.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson




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