jotting
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About 8,000 miles from the Middle East, where U.S. forces massed over the past month to prepare for war, Heather Griffith has been jotting a string of rising numbers into a notebook.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
Try jotting down three fractions separated by multiplication signs: earnings/sales x sales/assets x assets/equity.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
But his quieter teenage traumas and triumphs, the kind that occurred when he wasn’t busy jotting down ideas and making Super 8 home movies, played out on “Dawson’s Creek.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025
Williams recommends jotting down the fears about money that are holding you back.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024
Ignatius had actually spent the morning sitting at Eads Plaza watching the harbor traffic and jotting some notes about the history of shipping and Marco Polo in a Big Chief tablet.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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