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He is a pliant enough actor to daub each portrait with just enough psychological color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

In the absence of costumes or conspicuous floats, young people used their imaginations to daub eye-catching slogans on protest signs for the youth march.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2021

Visitors queued for gobs of mineral mud to daub on faces and arms.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2021

It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Mottled green daubs represent grass; lounging amoebic growths stand in for rocks, perhaps mountain peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

The algorithm-driven daubs of pastel color, although they never cohere into legible images, “explore the heritage of landscape painting,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

To treat shingles, Mrs. Quinn dips cotton in holy water and daubs it on the affected area while saying the prayer her grandmother taught her.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

Amid the long-running protests, people playing the character increasingly use different color face paint, including daubs of soot.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021

In spite of their ready answers, the sport had been one-sided, as Kit could see by the daubs of mud that stained the rough boards of the stocks.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Prosecutors also allege that slogans including "Free Gaza", "Free Palestine" and "Gaza is not for sale" were daubed on the course and buildings, along with offensive messages directed at Trump.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Martine Letterie, one of the campaign's organisers, said concentration camps were increasingly the target of vandalism, including far-right imagery daubed on sites.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

On the front steps, insults daubed in spray paint were directed at both Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

With the campaign heading into the homestretch, Gluesenkamp Perez recently embarked on a RV tour of the 3rd Congressional District, down twisting two-lane roads, past farmland and forests daubed with red, yellow and orange.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024

At the stream bank she sets out their drear picnic, which is only dense, crumbling bread daubed with crushed peanuts and slices of bitter plantain.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In May, it claimed responsibility for the daubing of a US military plane in Ireland.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

French prosecutors said earlier this week they were investigating whether two Moldovans who admitted to daubing Stars of David on the walls of Parisian properties did so at the behest of someone abroad.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

In the Republic of Ireland police are investigating the daubing of black paint on a monument to Christopher Columbus in Galway - a gift from the city of Genoa.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2020

AS WE WALK, we pass a man in a white skullcap standing on a ladder, daubing paint on a restaurant sign.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

I wasn’t sure how he was going to get his boots back on, even after daubing the worst of the blisters with a paste made of baking soda.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson