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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Andoh is creating Protect and Serve with Black, who wrote on hit BBC prison drama Time and penned the same network’s Life and Death in the Warehouse.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2026
And it’ll be directed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Arrival, the Dune series) and penned by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

— Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2026

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and xAI’s Elon Musk scrawled their names in erratic cursive.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
The show is arranged in eight parts and begins with a large white wall at the entrance with the title of the show scrawled in RM’s handwriting.

— Christine Terrisse, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

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Leeper authored the bill with McCrory’s support and the bill was passed out of committee on party lines.

— Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026
Across bat species, 9 percent are known so far to have odor-producing glands and other structures, but research on this is sparse, according to a 2021 paper in Mammal Review co-authored by Page.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026

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Activists and residents in various parts of the city — and elsewhere in the Balkan country — have self-organized to paint over anti-student graffiti that were scribbled on buildings during the tense campaign ahead of the ballot.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026
The summit register revealed roughly 40 names scribbled over the past decade, or what amounts to three or four people annually.

— Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

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