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The TV camera zooms in on David Moyes who is jotting down something in a notepad.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2024

As it does, Bell is jotting it down in media as fleeting as the home page on a digital newspaper.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019

She is jotting down notes in a journal devoted to the new novel.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2018

Jarvis has pulled a small notepad from his pocket and is jotting something down.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Meanwhile he is within barrack walls, or else he is jotting down his letters at a railway station, or else he is in the stages of an interminable journey, 'forty men to a truck.'

From Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 by Chevrillon, André