penciled (in)

variants or pencilled (in)
Definition of penciled (in)next
past tense of pencil (in)

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Verb
  • Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson penned her own opinion concurring in judgment.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • The paper was scrawled with phone numbers of politicians to call and driving distances to dialysis centers in the region.
    Arielle Zionts, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The post stitched together photos of Bible scripture, Paul crying, pain relief patches and personal notes scrawled through notebooks.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Wynaendts gave Europe a grade of one on a scale of one-to-ten on fulfilling the recommendations in the Draghi EU Competitiveness Report authored by Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank president.
    Steve Gelsi, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The bill was authored by Assemblymembers Josh Hoover, a Republican representing Folsom; Al Muratsuchi, a Democrat representing Torrance; Josh Lowenthal, a Democrat representing Long Beach; and Buffy Wicks, a Democrat representing Oakland.
    Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Another video shared on Instagram, presumably taken at an earlier point, shows the same bot rumbling along to deliver some food with the same graffiti scribbled on its exterior.
    Joe Wilkins Published Mar 19, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026
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“Penciled (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penciled%20%28in%29. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.

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