yellow pad
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
He worked from dawn into the night in his apartment, scribbling his words in pencil onto a yellow pad.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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