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
They found that in 82% of cases where one parent would display some problem behaviour, their doodle offspring were likely to show a more exaggerated version of that behaviour.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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
A woman walked her dog, a doodle that knew how to heel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
I doodle in my notebook, trying not to get nervous.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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
This plot doodles along, rarely going where we expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
The dogs were all poodle-cross, also known as "doodles".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 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
I picked up Zu’s notebook again in an attempt to avoid being lulled to sleep by Chubs’s rhythmic snores, and added a few clouds and stars to the first page of doodles.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
Karl Rove doodled on his stupid whiteboard and talked about what viewers could glean from the numbers they already had.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2024
While jotting down a few stray thoughts and details, I turned a page in my notebook and came across a drawing, something my 6-year-old daughter had doodled in bright-orange crayon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
He sat there and doodled with his blue pencil on a tablet, listening to me spiel to him for three or four minutes before he got a word in.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
She says she turned to an empty notebook, and began word doodling — scrawling random words, going wherever her pen took her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Meyer began doodling designs for a boxing game that could be played at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
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
He appeared more focused on doodling on a pad of paper than the news conference.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
Like some fairytale tailor, he threaded the end through the maze, dipping and doodling through openings the way he squiggled a football through a defense.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
