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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pencil (in)
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In 1931, a junior advertising executive at P&G, Neil McElroy, authored an influential internal memo urging the company to reshuffle its management to include teams dedicated to managing specific brands.—
Alexander Coolidge,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026 -
Much of what’s included in the agenda packets, however, are things like contracts and scans of documents not initially authored by the county, meaning the county can’t create them to be ADA-compliant from the start.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson penned her own opinion concurring in judgment.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Apr. 2026
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Kavanaugh penned a concurrence that questioned the lower court ruling, writing that ethnicity cannot be the sole reason why somebody is stopped but could be a relevant factor.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Modern interpretations from scholars at institutions like Cornell Law and the Congressional Research Service say the majority, if not all, of the acting Cabinet heads would need to sign on with the vice president to put Section 4 into action.—
Isa Almeida,
Oklahoman,
8 Apr. 2026
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The committee’s goal is to have at least one sign on each of the 18 holes at the Oaks North golf course, but would be happy to double that.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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The bodies, along with that of his six-month pregnant daughter-in-law, arrived in wooden coffins on a bus from Lebanon, their names scribbled on the sides.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The trilogy concluded on April 1 with Fagen scribbling an inscrutable equation on the car window until, again, taking a break to consult an invisible timepiece on his wrist.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Pencil (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pencil%20%28in%29. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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