jottings
Example Sentences
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Freist said she was “electrified” when archivists opened several letters and found jottings on chalkboard tablets that had only survived unerased because of their sudden seizure.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023
The text, however, evokes a stack of index cards with jottings from an indefatigable researcher unbound by historical limits.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023
Researchers have spent decades combing through European and West African archives to craft a portrait from the jottings of French officers, British traders and Italian missionaries.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
His printed draft had whiteout and other jottings indicating clearly it was not a final version.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2020
He never wrote out fair copies of these jottings for me, fugitive as were the marks and impossible of interpretation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
