penciling

variants or pencilling
present participle of pencil

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  • Google is building a data center on Australia’s remote Christmas Island off the coast of Indonesia, after inking a cloud-computing deal with Australia’s Department of Defense earlier this year, Reuters reported.
    Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • On the video side, Amazon this year has been busy signing up DSP partners, inking recent pacts with Netflix, Disney and Roku for programmatic ad sales.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Penciling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penciling. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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