notepad
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notepads
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During a U.S. cabinet meeting on Friday, Reuters snapped a ‘To Do” list on Bessent’s desk notepad that contained a solitary entry: “Buy Japanese yen $5-10 bill.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I begin each morning with a head full of dreams, a notepad full of ideas, and a cup or two of coffee,” says Parton in the statement.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Combs has mapped out his new gig, which began in January, on a two-column chart he’s sketched on a notepad.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Mangione, wearing gray suits, jotted information on a notepad and occasionally whispered with his attorneys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
“Tell him this—” Maddie scribbled numbers and distances on her notepad.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Every day in the courtroom, Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of OpenAI, took extensive notes on yellow notepads.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
The claimants had a leaked "ledger" of Associated Newspaper payments, invoices from some private investigators and extracts from reporters notepads with cryptic handwritten details of payments to sources.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Laughs, applause, and serious scribbling on notepads ensued.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2025
On that day, I followed Nikki’s careful instructions to type and collate the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024
I reach in and pull out a couple notepads.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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