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legal pad

  1. a ruled writing tablet, usually yellow and measuring 8½ × 14 inches (22 × 36 centimeters).


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Word History and Origins

Origin of legal pad1

First recorded in 1965–70

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Example Sentences

With her yellow legal pad, Mayra was ready to take down names.

So, on this spring day, she pulled out her large yellow legal pad and rapped on the tan vinyl siding of one more mobile home.

McCardle had a yellow legal pad under his arm with his daily tally of coronavirus cases in Davison County since March.

In his hand, as much a part of his uniform as his Walmart cap, was a yellow legal pad where he jotted down what he heard.

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Baez spat back, “Really” as he turned the page of his yellow legal pad in the most decisive way.

The one on Sunday, this particular one, I do remember the agent used a legal pad.

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