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• Something like this should have been on the drawing board weeks ago.
  — Bill Rodriguez and Jim Galvan, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
• His firm has its own 1,049-foot tower on the drawing board.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023
• But the project remains on the drawing board, and the county hasn’t released the bidding paperwork.
  — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• Talk to the business, often and early, starting when a product is still on the drawing board.
  — Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Crossrail, as the project used to be known, has been on the drawing board of London planners since the nineteen-seventies.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
• The idea of bringing a space shuttle to the Science Center has been on the drawing board for a generation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• The three huge developments on the drawing board would gobble up almost 40 acres of land in the downtown area.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
• The 415-megwatt Perennial WindChaser gas plant has been on the drawing board for years.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2020
• While no such flights to the red planet are even on the drawing board at this point, NASA views the moon as a critical first step toward reaching that long-range goal.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2022
• These lines have been on the drawing board for years, but utilities in the neighboring regions have not moved them forward.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2024
• All aircraft look good on the drawing board, and many may even work well under ideal conditions.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
• The half-dozen tall buildings that are on the drawing board wouldn’t stand out in downtown Oakland or northeast San Francisco.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
• But, as of this week, the work remains on the drawing board, and Alvarado is no longer even operating under that name.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024
• Chief Executive John Keppler said the company expects to announce the location of a third 1.1-million-ton plant around the end of the year and has three more on the drawing board.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• American Airlines has agreed to buy up to 20 supersonic jets and put down a non-refundable deposit on the planes that are still on the drawing board and years away from flying.
  — David Koenig, ajc, 16 Aug. 2022
• Biden soon faced a roadblock when a central piece of his plan to push utilities off fossil fuels, known as the clean electricity standard, was left on the drawing board.
  — Chris Megerian, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• While some redevelopment plans are still on the drawing board, the projects put Bobby firmly in the driver’s seat as Asok, 68, gradually steps back.
  — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Target is stepping up its campus store development this year, but there’s no word yet on whether multiple campuses in Texas are on the drawing board.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2021
• The brotherhood among Athena’s knights was also left on the drawing board, presumably in expectation of being able to tackle it in a sequel that likely won’t happen.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• There are also plans on the drawing board to reconfigure this upper nautical loft into a private owner’s suite, with a wall to separate the helm and a private hot tub on the rear terrace.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
• Yet none of the new fabs on the drawing board are in Oregon or southwest Washington, even though the region has arguably the densest concentration of chip manufacturers and suppliers in the nation.
  — oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2021
• Of those units now under construction or on the drawing board, roughly 3,500 will be subsidized, a comparatively high number in recent years.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2022
• In addition to the funding, recent agreements and projects on the drawing board, Dedina continues to believe that a big part of the solution will arise out of Mexico’s self-interest.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• To that end a YouTuber Invitational that would bring together content creators from across the world for a competition that’ll double in a way as a promotional vehicle for the club is on the drawing board.
  — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• If that’s true for this or any other optical accelerator on the drawing board, many neural network calculations would no doubt be done using light rather than just electrons.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2019
• Potential educational partnerships with neighboring schools are on the drawing board — as is the addition of a community space for meetings and events.
  — Holly Mullen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Indeed, coal plants have gotten more expensive to run as a result of federal environmental regulations to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, and few new plants are on the drawing board.
  — Varun Sivaram, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2017
• By that deadline, however, not only had costs risen to $5 billion but much of the telescope was still on the drawing board; the development of JWST’s myriad foundational new technologies was proving more intractable than planners had imagined.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024