sketched

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It glides by smoothly, and Ms. Mann’s lilting, melancholy songs are hypnotically lovely, but the characters’ anguish and psychological distress are only faintly sketched in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

He sketched an idea on the back of his nine-year-old daughter's homework, he says, and soon showed it to an architect, partly expecting him to "laugh me out of the room".

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Acordagoitia sketched several table-top designs for the public to paint at the event.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

"Since Margaret Reed Lewis first sketched mitochondrial pearling in 1915, it has largely been dismissed as an anomaly linked to cellular stress," says Landoni.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

Jim Brady, one of his graduate students, was tinkering at his lab table on the second floor of LeConte when Ernest bounded in, dragged Brady to the blackboard, and sketched out the equations.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik