pencil (in)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pencil (in)
Verb
  • Since being founded in 2023, Deep Fusion’s management have authored several policy papers on AI, as the entertainment world continues to wrestle with how to approach the technologically ethically.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 June 2025
  • Toward The Unknown Unlike the Mel Brooks version, the original novel Frankenstein, authored in 1818 by Mary Shelley (see my earlier Forbes article on this world’s first work of science fiction), did not include a monster dance scene.
    Robert C. Wolcott, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • In 1992, three women — Laura McAllister, Michele Adams and Karen Jones — penned a missive to Alun Evans, the Football Association of Wales (FAW) general secretary, requesting an audience.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 8 July 2025
  • In June 2020, Fawn Sharp, the President of the National Congress of American Indians, penned a powerful message to the team's owners and supporters.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 7 July 2025
Verb
  • Due to the technology restrictions, journalists furiously scribbled notes for six to eight hours a day, sporadically darting out of the courtroom to dictate the latest news to their editors.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 3 July 2025
  • Having lived in Paris with Richardson on and off since late 1921, Hemingway was a struggling writer who could be spotted scribbling in Left Bank cafés—a tall, lanky Midwesterner with unkempt hair, wearing sneakers, old trousers and a patched jacket.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
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“Pencil (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pencil%20%28in%29. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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