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penciled (in)

verb

variants or pencilled (in)

past tense of pencil (in)

as in scratched (out)

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Cofnas penned an exposé last month that documented widespread plagiarism and shoddy scholarship in Arday’s work, a black professor hired by Cambridge University with much fanfare in 2023 to conduct research on race and social injustice.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2026
The letter was penned after the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan had reportedly joined both initiatives, a move which set off alarm bells in Washington.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 21 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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However, GitHub has conducted an internal review and states that the contributions leading to the vulnerability were authored by a human, and were not reviewed by or contributed to by Copilot.

— Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
In addition to Born to Run, which chronicled the singer-songwriter’s early career and initial fame, Marsh authored the 1987’s Glory Days, continuing the Springsteen life story through the peak MTV era.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 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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