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sketch

[skech] / skɛtʃ /




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Because with comedy, you could choose improv, you could choose sketch, right?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

The sketch also revisited Trump’s recent remarks about men’s backsides, with Hanks becoming an unlikely recipient of the president’s fictional admiration.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Fielder wants to use the sketch to illustrate how Holmes’s description of the effectiveness of the Theranos device was confusing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

With a regular budget of $10,000 a month for your everyday needs, your chance of success — meaning, your money outlives you — was 99%, according to the sketch of your situation in Boldin.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

A boy eager for the approval of his father, who keeps a sketch pad in his rucksack and draws plants and landscapes by starlight.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

But I do think that the showing-your-work part of it all—publishing behind-the-scenes videos, dance rehearsals, early sketches and storyboards, for example—is likely to endure for a while, especially if attitudes towards machine-generated creative don’t improve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Buzz around the game has also spawned viral “Saturday Night Live” sketches, and YouTube skits about droves of workers all putting in for the same time off in order to play the game.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

As the long-running sketch comedy series embarks on a new season, here’s a look at the lineup of guest hosts, new players, sketches you can expect and the lingering question of Lorne Michaels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

“The Eric André Show” began in 2012 and is the origin for a number of viral memes and sketches and unhinged celebrity moments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

OPPOSITE: Maria based this 1679 engraving of silkworm metamorphosis on sketches she made during her first silkworm study in 1660.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Artist William Richardson had no connection to Aberfan, with his skills being used most often on the pier where he sketched caricatures of visitors and celebrities performing in town.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Most every character in the book—major, minor or fleeting—came sketched from a real-life analogue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In minutes, Bartlett had sketched the makeshift shrine that Helga builds for Arnold in her closet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Thatcher, though, was far and away the best part of both films, bringing a striking depth to her thinly sketched characters.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

On it was a hastily sketched charcoal, but Rachel was a good artist.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

I have friends who explore unfamiliar places by running through neighborhoods at sunrise or sketching what they see.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

He spent hours at his desk sketching, working out how to make the technology smaller and lighter.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Reports have painted a picture of a decidedly low-key existence for the actor on the island, with Carrey spending his time reading, writing, walking, painting, and sketching.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

In an 1803 etching and aquatint with watercolor by Thomas Daniell, we see Gangaram absorbed in sketching wall reliefs of Shiva and Parvati from a rock-cut cave at Ellora.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Calder was sketching a fierce column of five-piece pentomino squares down the margin of his notebook.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett


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