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In its announcement post, Nvidia highlighted early adopters and evaluators across blue-chip names in e-commerce, industrials, and tech, suggesting near-term pilots that could convert into volume orders if returns pencil out.
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Manager Rocco Baldelli will regularly pencil four of the Twins’ own first-round picks (Lewis, Trevor Larnach, Matt Wallner and Brooks Lee) and one second-round pick (Luke Keaschall) into the lineup the rest of the way, and only Keaschall is an official rookie (and tearing it up).
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025
After a brief foray into honey blonde territory, Palmer has been rocking spicy red hair for a while now, wearing it in voluminous curls, but this is a whole other look, and now her eyebrows are penciled to match.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2025
Over in Singapore, non-oil domestic exports shrank 4.6% in July from the year before, worse than the 1.8% contraction penciled by economists polled by Reuters.
—Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2025
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Manager Rocco Baldelli will regularly pencil four of the Twins’ own first-round picks (Lewis, Trevor Larnach, Matt Wallner and Brooks Lee) and one second-round pick (Luke Keaschall) into the lineup the rest of the way, and only Keaschall is an official rookie (and tearing it up).
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025
After a brief foray into honey blonde territory, Palmer has been rocking spicy red hair for a while now, wearing it in voluminous curls, but this is a whole other look, and now her eyebrows are penciled to match.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2025
Over in Singapore, non-oil domestic exports shrank 4.6% in July from the year before, worse than the 1.8% contraction penciled by economists polled by Reuters.
—Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pencil
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As for Chernin, the company has been busy after recently inking a first-look feature deal with Apple TV.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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By Sethi’s count, Ambercycle has inked more than a dozen offtake agreements with both brands and fiber producers.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
28 Oct. 2025
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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 29 Oct. 2025.
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