Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draft or draw roughly; make a rough sketch of.
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Examples
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And you'll find CitizenReader is in pretty rough-draft format, still, but I've taken care to get the link to Books Are My Only Friends operational!
New iteration of a great book blog Tripp 2008
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Think I have Chapter 1 tied up enough for rough-draft purposes, now to revise Chapters 2 & 3 to make them fit the beginning of PENDRAGON AUTUMN rather than the ending of WINTER OAK.
Back on the climatic seesaw jhetley 2005
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Here's my rough-draft attempt at a dialogue-paraphrase that stays close to Pascal's actual notes.
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I spread all the material on the counter: Morley's files, his calendar, his appointment book, and his rough-draft reports.
I is for Innocent Grafton, Sue 1992
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After getting way behind against Colorado and St. Louis, Gallardo has yet to allow that to happen in the rough-draft portion of the season.
JSOnline.com 2010
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And, Bob didn't even have Matt Daley included on his rough-draft roster.
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And I still don't believe an intruder fusses with several rough-draft ransom notes, only to kill in a Boulder basement the very kid being ransomed.
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And, Bob didn't even have Matt Daley included on his rough-draft roster.
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In this rough-draft article, she argues that the scientific labor market is broken, that the U.S. educational system actually produces too many qualified researchers for too few positions, and that a perverse funding structure perpetuates the problem, among other points.
Scientific American 2010
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After getting way behind against Colorado and St. Louis, Gallardo has yet to allow that to happen in the rough-draft portion of the season.
JSOnline.com 2010
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