legal pad
noun
: a writing tablet of ruled yellow paper that is usually 8.5 by 14 inches (about 22 by 36 centimeters)
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Singer Tyler Joseph announced the album’s rundown in a novel way on Wednesday (July 16), scratching out the 13-song tracklist with a pencil on a yellow legal pad.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 July 2025
My mother sat near me, on the other side of the shower curtain, doodling on a yellow legal pad.
—Amie Barrodale, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Eventually, my father gave up on writing his memoirs and instead produced an outline: a list of his professional achievements scrawled over several pages of a legal pad.
—Margot Singer
july 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
Sitting at the kitchen table with a yellow legal pad, the owner and his enterprising schoolteacher wife spent a pleasant evening together dreaming up my fictional biography:
¨ JASPER GUNN!
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 July 2025
My mother sat near me, on the other side of the shower curtain, doodling on a yellow legal pad.
—Amie Barrodale, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Eventually, my father gave up on writing his memoirs and instead produced an outline: a list of his professional achievements scrawled over several pages of a legal pad.
—Margot Singer
july 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
Sitting at the kitchen table with a yellow legal pad, the owner and his enterprising schoolteacher wife spent a pleasant evening together dreaming up my fictional biography:
¨ JASPER GUNN!
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
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“Legal pad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legal%20pad. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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