Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pencils (in)
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Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday are also great days to unplug from the news (writes the news reporter who authors a daily newsletter about the news in between reading about and writing the actual news).—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
26 Nov. 2025 -
While not all of the slowdown in box production can be attributable to falling demand for goods, the slump is present in other areas of the freight economy, said Adam Josephson, a longtime paper and packaging sell-side analyst who now authors an economics newsletter.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Amazon moved fast to board the project and the film will now be a big priority at the studio as Loeb pens the script.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2026
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Greg Ballard pens anti-redistricting op-ed Kayla Dwyer Greg Ballard, the former Republican mayor of Indianapolis, has some sharp words for Indiana lawmakers' mid-decade redistricting effort.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
2 Dec. 2025
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Hope scrawls a single word on the paper and folds it up.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Weil, the author of three previous books, alternates between a lengthy letter Silas scribbles to his son, Elisha, a teenager still in Pennsylvania, and a gory reckoning (narrated in the third person) among peaks and gorges during the autumn of 1849.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2026
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“Pencils (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pencils%20%28in%29. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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