doodle
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There are also synchronized motocross jumps in front of the White House, which feels like a 12-year-old’s doodle come to life.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
She brought her dog, a small, rambunctious golden doodle who kept moving around under the table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Only, oopsie doodle, due to a serious knock on the head, Samantha forgot that she’s actually a CIA-trained black-ops agent.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
There are a lot of different looks for the drawings, partly a result of her loving every doodle I made.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
She turns that into a tune: “A moth-er, a broth-er, a fath-er. A doodle, a dandle, a candle.”
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
The enormous light-up can at the entrance features doodles of fireworks, a monster truck, and an eagle in American flag sunglasses.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
The results showed designer doodles differed from their purebred parents in just over half of all comparisons.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Scribbles, doodles, crayon marks and stickers — evoking Lisa Frank and anime cartoons — have begun appearing on prominent Gen Z contemporary fiction covers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
The comics that began as office doodles during boring meetings grew into an empire for Adams with companion books, a short-lived animated show and an ill-fated burrito line.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
Leaves not a single descendant, only scattered, partial testimony, His complete works doodles in the dirt?
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
In her teenage years, she doodled poems in her diaries and made up verses about physics to help her remember things for her exams.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
A mysterious triangle doodled on Page 143 of The Codex Arundel notebook seems to show Leonardo da Vinci deconstructing gravity, long before Galileo and Newton.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
And sometimes, it seems like people just get bored, like the Whitney Museum guard who doodled “I Love you Tushee, Love, Buns” on a Roy Lichtenstein painting in 1993.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2022
For inspiration, she doodled in the margin of the page.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
He coped with frustration by doodling during meetings and began developing the Dilbert character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
Growing up in Greater Manchester, he says his biggest childhood involvement with the sport was through doodling in football-themed colouring books.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
His campaign repeatedly put him in positions to reach strategic audiences, as campaigns do down the stretch, and he spent each session essentially doodling with crayons on the wall.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024
Armed with a Uniball pen and a Strathmore sketchpad, Mr. Polan chronicled the life of the city with an observational hunger that earned him the status of a doodling New York folk hero.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
I kept my eyes away from the door, doodling idly on the cover of my notebook.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
