Thesaurus results for PENCILLED (IN)

penciled (in)

verb

variants or pencilled (in)

past tense of pencil (in)

as in scratched (out)

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The Duchess of Sussex, 45, penned a note that appeared in the 2026 holiday catalog for her lifestyle brand, As ever.

— Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2026
Hugh Jackman, who played Wolverine in more than 10 Marvel films, penned a tribute on Instagram.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 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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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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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
Jonas even gave his number to Hadid’s mother, scribbled on a piece of paper.

— Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Oct. 2026

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