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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The indie feature, penned by McClure with Tyke Caravelli, brings to life a true story about a hero dog that miraculously survived severe neglect and abuse.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
After a quiet 2026, Doechii has also penned a handwritten letter to fans.

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 12 Oct. 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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Rick Burton is Syracuse University’s David Falk Emeritus Professor of Sport Management, co-hosts the NIL Clubhouse podcast on Apple and Spotify and co-authored The Rise of Major League Soccer (Lyons Press) and Business the NHL Way (Aevo/UTP).

— Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Lindsey Burnett, a urogynecologist and assistant professor at UC San Diego who co-authored the study, notes that lower urinary tract symptoms that look and feel like a UTI can be caused by things other than bacteria.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026

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The messages, scribbled on whatever scrap of paper a sender could find, often featured misspellings and shaky penmanship; many older residents of rural areas did not know how to read or write well, if at all.

— Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
At Dries Van Noten, Thomas de Kluyver scribbled inky liner into the hollows of eyes and just under the lash line.

— Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

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