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yellow pad

American  

noun

  1. a scratch pad of yellow, lined paper.


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I often found him, pen and yellow pad in hand, contemplating our nation’s challenges, considering goals to pursue, and developing a strategy for attaining them.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 4, 2025

Probabilistic decision-making tends to be better decision-making, Robert Rubin has learned with help from a yellow pad.

From New York Times May 15, 2023

For a bee, landing on a hot yellow pad would be like us “touching a hot plate,” says lead author Matilda Rose Gibbons, a behavioral neuroscientist and Ph.D. student in Chittka’s lab.

From Science Magazine Jul. 25, 2022

"You wanted to drive the stories by what people said to each other," Pennebaker said, "not by what you thought up on a yellow pad."

From BBC Aug. 5, 2019

Detective Newberg flashed her girlish smile, then made a note on her yellow pad.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

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