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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pencil (in)
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Former President Biden’s aides considered the possibility of putting him in a wheelchair if he was reelected to a second term, an unreleased book authored by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson reveals.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
13 May 2025 -
Articles attributed to this byline are authored by paying advertisers.—
Amplified Content Studio,
Mercury News,
13 May 2025
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The song, penned by Lambert and Wilson alongside award-winning singer-songwriter Brandy Clark, debuted at Thursday evening's ACM Awards broadcast on Prime Video.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Akil went on to pen stories, later majoring in journalism at Northwestern University and, well, the rest is history.—
Candice Frederick,
Refinery29,
8 May 2025
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Photos also appear to show that protesters scribbled messages on desks.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
8 May 2025
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Mark Twain scribbled this fragment in a journal around 1891, just a few years shy of sixty himself.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Pencil (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pencil%20%28in%29. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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