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That won't be easy, and because of that, Duran being penciled into Boston's lineup Friday still seems like the most likely outcome.
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Mike Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
Most of the show’s music moments were already penciled into the treatment when Dunham and Felber pitched Netflix the show, and many of them came from those initial playlists.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 July 2025
Following Meyers’ running, the four men huddled for a conversation, which ostensibly gave Espada enough comfort to pencil him into the starting lineup.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 10 July 2025
That surcharge alone erodes a meaningful slice of Qatar’s margin advantage over Henry-Hub-linked U.S. cargoes and is already pencilled into 2026 LNG tender models.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
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Mike Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
Most of the show’s music moments were already penciled into the treatment when Dunham and Felber pitched Netflix the show, and many of them came from those initial playlists.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 July 2025
Following Meyers’ running, the four men huddled for a conversation, which ostensibly gave Espada enough comfort to pencil him into the starting lineup.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 10 July 2025
That surcharge alone erodes a meaningful slice of Qatar’s margin advantage over Henry-Hub-linked U.S. cargoes and is already pencilled into 2026 LNG tender models.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pencil
Verb
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Engram was inked to a two-year deal in March.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025
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Without a rocket of its own, Northrop Grumman inked a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to carry the resupply missions until engineers could develop a new, all-domestic version of the Antares rocket.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Children tape crayoned train drawings to the corridor walls and make soap artwork on the windows.—
Mark Orwoll,
Travel + Leisure,
18 July 2023
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“Pencil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pencil. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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