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  • noun Plural form of jotting.

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Examples

  • I'd always kept journals and used the jottings from the other babyhoods too — those early months of my older daughters.

    An Emissary of the Between-World 2001

  • The next 14 or so frames of every 15 are just "jottings" of what's changed between frames.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

  • You can even see Cardinal Wolsey's Bible, bearing his jottings in the margins relating to Henry VIII's divorce.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • It began with jottings from mental prayer over the past year.

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • One of the running jokes -- not a funny joke but a running joke -- is that the voice-over narration is meant to be the diary jottings of their "daughter," Joan -- and the flour sack has a constantly changing expression on its "face."

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Dirty Girl Marshall Fine 2011

  • I straightened my desk and looked through my jottings of other cases, distracted every time I heard footsteps or a door slam.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • The inclusion of often fragmentary verbal exchanges or readings of what might be personal correspondence or jocular jottings—heard on tape in Zane's and Mr. Jones's voices—and conversational banter between the dancers prompted audiences to chuckle and show keener interest in what was taking place in the often strung-out course of each dance.

    'Movement-Based' Choreography Robert Greskovic 2011

  • It began with jottings from mental prayer over the past year.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • They were just little jottings about how much she loved her new husband even though they were both in great danger.

    One Painting's Journey Home Barbara Chai 2012

  • Either of the students might have stepped out of a fable of the early republic, and such young patriots far outnumbered the exotics and agitators paraded before us on zoom-in videos and in sinuous jottings.

    Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011

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