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jots
  • present tense form of jot (3rd person singular).

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When Siri questions Killian, she jots down another observation: “hiding something.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Over the weeks, Margaret jots down in her diary what she sees.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2023

Leno weighs them, takes their temperature and jots details of each visit by hand in a record book with a tattered yellow cover.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2023

Each time, BX2AN, as he is known on the radio waves, jots down a series of numbers and letters: call signs, names, dates, locations.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022

“Of course,” he said as he emptied his purse onto the table then fingered through the jumbled coins: heavy silver talents and thin silver bits, copper jots, broken ha’pennies, and iron drabs.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss