noodle
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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
"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
One time when a neighbor’s TV set broke, Dad opened the back and used a macaroni noodle to insulate some crossed wires.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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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
At midday Michael and Charley had always eaten their lunches in the shelter where George Woods, Watty, and Cash Wilson ate theirs and noodled their opal.
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
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 he speaks, Wonder is noodling on the harpejji, the electric string instrument you’ve probably seen him play on TV on the Grammy Awards or “Dancing With the Stars.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
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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