doodling

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On a notebook on her coffee table, she wrote Cynthia Renee Ortiz, doodling hearts around her prospective married name.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

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

A priest, noticing Pratt’s skillful doodling, bought him art supplies and showed him a collection of work by the Kiowa Five, a renowned group of early 20th-century painters who’d attended the school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

From the moment she could pick up a pen, she was doodling over everything possible - from school textbooks to spare scraps of paper.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

He could not even remember what he had written in some of the tablets, and he realized that several were filled principally with doodling.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole