as in housed
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
remember to pen up the dogs when visitors come over
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as in wrote
to compose and set down on paper the words of
though relatively unknown at the time of his death, the composer had penned some of the most memorable show tunes of his era
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as in inclosed
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Recent Examples of penned
Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
His words were accurate, but the piece was never submitted as an essay penned by him.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
This time around, the characters are being penned by Yuhei Murota, who worked on Love Live!
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
She's performed cooking demonstrations on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and penned a column in Sainsbury's.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
The project will be directed by prolific filmmaker and Super Bowl commercial king Bryan Buckley, who also penned the musical's book.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
No other justices penned an opinion.
—Andrew Stanton
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Sakaguchi Riko penned the screenplay, with music by Yasukawa Goro.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Many of the letters that were sent to the court in recent weeks were penned by family and friends.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
His words were accurate, but the piece was never submitted as an essay penned by him.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
This time around, the characters are being penned by Yuhei Murota, who worked on Love Live!
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
She's performed cooking demonstrations on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and penned a column in Sainsbury's.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
The project will be directed by prolific filmmaker and Super Bowl commercial king Bryan Buckley, who also penned the musical's book.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
No other justices penned an opinion.
—Andrew Stanton
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Sakaguchi Riko penned the screenplay, with music by Yasukawa Goro.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Many of the letters that were sent to the court in recent weeks were penned by family and friends.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
Garcia penned the feature script for the project, which scored in the top 1% on The Black List.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
His words were accurate, but the piece was never submitted as an essay penned by him.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
This time around, the characters are being penned by Yuhei Murota, who worked on Love Live!
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
She's performed cooking demonstrations on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and penned a column in Sainsbury's.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
The project will be directed by prolific filmmaker and Super Bowl commercial king Bryan Buckley, who also penned the musical's book.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
No other justices penned an opinion.
—Andrew Stanton
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Sakaguchi Riko penned the screenplay, with music by Yasukawa Goro.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Many of the letters that were sent to the court in recent weeks were penned by family and friends.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Garcia penned the feature script for the project, which scored in the top 1% on The Black List.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
His words were accurate, but the piece was never submitted as an essay penned by him.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
This time around, the characters are being penned by Yuhei Murota, who worked on Love Live!
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
She's performed cooking demonstrations on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and penned a column in Sainsbury's.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
The project will be directed by prolific filmmaker and Super Bowl commercial king Bryan Buckley, who also penned the musical's book.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
No other justices penned an opinion.
—Andrew Stanton
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Sakaguchi Riko penned the screenplay, with music by Yasukawa Goro.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Many of the letters that were sent to the court in recent weeks were penned by family and friends.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for penned
enclosed
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The restaurant has a capacity to seat 80, with an enclosed patio in the back.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The enclosed chamber offers very good heat regulation with an extruder fan, a part-cooling fan, an auxiliary part-cooling fan, and a fan to regulate the chamber.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
15 Aug. 2025
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