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noodle

[nood-l] / ˈnud l /


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Newsbeat meets Bahl in a corner of Shoreditch, London, that's been turned into a convincing replica of a South Korean street complete with noodle bars and convenience stores.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Walters learned to noodle when he was a young child.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Simply put, this is the time to indulge in a summer cobbler, slurp on a delicious cooked sesame noodle salad, or whip up an easy garden-fresh pasta.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

After surveying his pyramids of cans, arrayed spices and stacks of noodle soup, they issued him a 2,500-euro fine, equivalent to around $2,866.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

He went around telling everyone in town that Dad sure knew how to use his noodle.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

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

His first great muse, a Weimaraner called Man Ray, noodled around in front of the camera until Wegman decided to click the shutter.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019

“A few years into tweeting, when it was starting to become more important for me professionally, I noodled around to try to find something more straightforward,” she told me.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2017

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 Cory Doctorow

Iñárritu first started noodling on the idea of what would become “Digger” after making the 2015 frontier thriller “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Before long, Walters was noodling on his own.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

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 mood shifts, a noodling electric guitar kicks in and the gang unconsciously assembles into poses that could be on a grunge album cover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

And so, while at GTE, he started noodling a nonmilitary question, one that troubled him and he couldn’t shake.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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