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verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to sketch in outline, with little detail

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Nearly one year after the Eaton fire incinerated their block in west Altadena, neighbors gathered again, greeting one another with hugs that spoke to a bond forged by shared loss.

From Los Angeles Times

The toy they ended up building is a sleek block in pastel colors that sits under the TV and looks like a Rubik’s Cube.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Baird team also noted a change in Satoshi mining activity, that coincide with the time he founded Block in Feb. 2009, and the time he visited Iraq with the State Department in April that year.

From MarketWatch

The Baird team also noted a change in Satoshi mining activity, that coincide with the time he founded Block in Feb. 2009, and the time he visited Iraq with the State Department in April that year.

From MarketWatch

The latest one, which opened Friday on a busy block in Midtown Manhattan, is hard to miss.

From The Wall Street Journal