penciled (in)

variants or pencilled (in)
past tense of pencil (in)

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Treble’s office in central Reykjavík could stand in as an Arctic replica of Silicon Valley, with complex mathematical equations penned on meeting-room windows and a weight room across the hall.
    Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Jake Reiner previously penned an emotional essay about his parents' death in April.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • More than 60% of China’s albumin market is supplied by foreign manufacturers and all of it is made from plasma collected in the US, according to a 2024 study co-authored by researchers from China’s national and Zhejiang drug inspection authorities.
    CNN Staff, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Rochman, the University of Toronto researcher, co-authored a petition urging rigorous scrutiny of microplastics by the International Joint Commission, a binational group that oversees the treaty.
    Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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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“Penciled (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penciled%20%28in%29. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

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