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Example sentences for: jotting

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The physicist and the alien would no doubt get embroiled in a discussion of string theory, and soon they'd be jotting down incomprehensible equations about 10-dimensional vibrating loops.
As far back as 1838, he wrote, I began the practice, which I have kept up ever since, of desultorily jotting down notes on points of English.