noodle
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Walters learned to noodle when he was a young child.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
For this cold noodle dish from Gu Grocery, blend toasted sesame seeds with soy sauce, rice vinegar, pickled mustard greens, and orange zest and juice for maximum flavor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
It’s the sort of lunch that lands somewhere between a noodle salad and your favorite summer sandwich.
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
I spot Rabiya in front of the teriyaki noodle place, nibbling a free sample off a toothpick.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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
The feeding period where geese are noodled usually extends from 3 to 4 weeks.
From Ducks and Geese by Harry M. Lamon
In a way, he says, noodling is an act of faith.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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
And you’re like, “I don’t know if I can jam. I was trying to write a song and now you’re noodling all over me. You know what? I’ll just put it down.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
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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