jot
verb (used with object)
to write or mark down quickly or briefly (usually followed bydown ).
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Sohrab’s bed is the last one around the corner, the one nearest the nurses’ station where two nurses in green surgical scrubs are jotting notes on clipboards, chatting in low voices.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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