Thesaurus results for PENCILED (IN)

penciled (in)

verb

variants or pencilled (in)

past tense of pencil (in)

as in scratched (out)

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Treble’s office in central Reykjavík could stand in as an Arctic replica of Silicon Valley, with complex mathematical equations penned on meeting-room windows and a weight room across the hall.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2026
Jake Reiner previously penned an emotional essay about his parents' death in April.

— Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

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Instead, there’s an impromptu memorial, formed from hundreds of tributes to the rapper scrawled in sharpie on poles and on the concrete.

— Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Shelving units in the garage are tightly, but neatly, packed with containers of various items, from Nike sneakers to Cold War-era relics, labeled with a description or lot number scrawled in black marker.

— Sarah Jackson Valentina Duarte, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026

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The measure was authored by Assemblymember James Ramos, D-Highland, a member of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribe, to ensure that people could not be blocked from access to sacred sites.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Median rents in Manhattan reached an all-time high of $5,000 a month in July, according to the Real Deal Report, authored by Jonathan Miller, director of markets for Street Matrix.

— Robert Frank, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026

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However, over that time, the amounts typically scribbled or printed on the face of those checks rose.

— Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 24 July 2026
With so much data to take in, penalty ‘cheat sheets’ have started to appear on goalkeeper’s bottles and scribbled on pieces of paper.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 July 2026

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