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From Mr. Van Raan’s sketchy paper—a mere six pages—Mr. Byrne has spun a more expansive consideration of its theme, “Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and Why They Wake Up.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Another pet peeve for many are sketchy cycling lanes in a city where 18 percent of all trips are made by bike.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

“People will be like, ‘I don’t go to downtown anymore, it’s so sketchy now, my car got broken into last time and I feel weird letting a girl walk to a car by herself.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

One way to make this less of a sketchy move is to check in first.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

These sketchy records show that Cleopatra was not only ruling alongside her brother, but also that she was now second in command.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

Southern California’s most dangerous surf spot, the Wedge, has become even sketchier in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Omicron’s impact is difficult to gauge in other parts of the world, where data are often sketchier.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2022

But it is also about the narrative of a community in rapid flux: amid the upheaval, is a free apartment a glitch from the sketchier past, something to be rectified in the name of progress?

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

But for loved ones caught up the wake, navigating is even sketchier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2018

Naturally, Europe and its many loops were well-defined, but farther afield things got sketchier.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

He messaged Lutz about his experiences: “It was definitely the sketchiest thing I have ever had to do.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

Huge sums of money are now available for the sketchiest of projects, from "blue hydrogen" to the sea-bed mining of rare-earth minerals.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2021

“The majority gives only the sketchiest of reasons for reversing Teague’s watershed exception,” Kagan wrote.

From Slate ● May 17, 2021

Over two recording sessions for Columbia Records in early 1959, Davis would hand out the sketchiest of outlines for the music and leave the rest to extemporization.

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2020

As to principles of treatment in a disease of so varied and indefinite a character, due to such a multitude of causes, obviously nothing can be said except in the broadest and sketchiest of outline.

From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson