noodle
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"We're worried," said Samuel Fu, who works in a noodle shop in the coastal district of Bali, near Taipei.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
They’re the backbone of everything from Chinese tomato-and-egg stir-fries to noodle dishes whose sauces somehow taste deeper than the sum of their parts.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
William Foo, a self-described beef noodle connoisseur, has sampled versions in Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia, Thailand and his homeland of Malaysia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
On stage, there is a camaraderie between the musicians, who interact playfully with their frontman, twirling him around the stage, or parting ways to let him noodle around on a vintage synthesiser.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Dad is tossing a salad while Aunt Melissa spoons chicken noodle soup into bowls.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
A lawyer by training, he seems to function primarily by breaking any challenge into small pieces to be noodled over at tedious length one by one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The boy noodled with seashells as his grandfather cast.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
There was kind of a lot of “Could you do a Season 4?” and we noodled around with the prison idea for a long time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
Dunn is less interested in the shiny, sponsored giant model worlds built for commercial gain than he is in the tiny cottage industries noodled over by obsessives.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2018
She noodled at me, I noodled back at her, and her eyes crinkled charmingly whenever I managed a smidge of tuneful wit.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory
Overcoming the aerodynamic drag inherent with a trad-core design was a degree-of-difficulty multiplier for Rivian’s team, requiring lots of computer simulation and iterative, millimeter-scale noodling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
As the technology becomes so cheap that anyone can use it, we may become deluged by a wave of low-quality noodling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
“Tomorrow,” after intermission, contained 24 blissful minutes of bass, percussion, flute, guitar and vocal noodling over a recorded soundscape of environmental noise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
Early on he played a drugstore harmonica and a jaw harp, then annoyed older musicians by noodling on their guitars when they weren’t around.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Not only was he noodling around in his mind the best ways to get a war going, he also had to constantly have affection shining from his eyes.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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