crayon

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Recent Examples of crayon Children tape crayoned train drawings to the corridor walls and make soap artwork on the windows. Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for crayon
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  • Maybe the Giants didn’t see enough from Kai-Wei Teng or Carson Whisenhunt or Hayden Birdsong to pencil them into next year’s rotation.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But navigating the bureaucracy, paperwork and insurance grew to be too difficult, and the math just wouldn’t pencil out.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • Last month, Blueprint expanded beyond its existing network to ink a similar kind of services agreement with Oregon State.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Now, the nonprofit counts around 10 staff members and has inked strategic partnerships with companies in Hong Kong and abroad for PR, production and business development.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Crayon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crayon. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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