noodle
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"We're worried," said Samuel Fu, who works in a noodle shop in the coastal district of Bali, in New Taipei City.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s the sort of lunch that lands somewhere between a noodle salad and your favorite summer sandwich.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
The beef noodle soup, which accounts for about 80% of orders, contains noodles, beef, one ladle of original stock and one ladle of fresh broth to dilute the stock’s intense flavor.
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
Where he worked in a Chinatown noodle shop and slept outside next to the steam vent and awoke one morning to see that his feet had turned almost black with the cold.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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
At first our voices wavered, our raised arms noodled, and our overall mien lacked sternness.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2016
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
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
By age 3 he was noodling on piano keys and singing at services, with churchgoers sometimes hoisting him on a milk crate so the congregation could see him belting Aretha Franklin songs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
The result is a lot of noodling around.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
Kyle could tell they were already noodling out numbers.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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