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pencil

[pen-suhl] / ˈpɛn səl /






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Rather than pencil in the expected path for rates, he said, a central bank should explain how it will react to a changing economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The researchers believe the bees mixed dirt with saliva to construct each tiny nest, which measured less than the size of a pencil eraser.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

I really pared back technology in my class, and we’ve pivoted back to paper and pencil.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

“It’s a pencil, and so you know, we’re going to have to see how the data comes in,” he added.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

He keeps glancing over his shoulder, waiting for me to throw a pencil or something.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

He’s done the math — $82 a night for a queen bed, single occupancy; $89 for a king — and likes how it pencils out.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

Labour peer Baroness Theresa Griffin of Princethorpe said she was once left in airport "holding pens" and given colouring pencils while travelling to Strasbourg.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

Well, that is when dividend investors need to download the 10-K and sharpen their pencils.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

The SNB now pencils in inflation to average at 0.5% both this year and 2027, from 0.3% and 0.6% previously.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

While I was recovering from the fire, Mae and Birdie gave me a notebook, along with a sharp quill pen, a bottle of mirpetal ink, and several pencils.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

Though they probably will have only four starting spots to fill in the postseason — and Yamamoto, Skubal, Snell and Glasnow can be penciled in when healthy — Ohtani’s build-up adds an interesting wrinkle.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Its debt payments now eat about a quarter of the national budget, and the government just penciled in a 3% borrowing cost, up from 2%.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

And he’s penciled in to pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

That compared with $3.85 billion and $18.61 billion a year earlier, and is below the $4.47 billion and $19.47 billion in revenue that analysts polled by FactSet had penciled in.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

She penciled some notes on the next day’s schedule.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

There are currently two reservoirs pencilled for completion in 2036 and the 2040s, and more set to be approved.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Goldman Sachs estimate is $474 billion in 2030 while Morgan Stanley has $330 billion pencilled in, according to forecasts shared with investors that the Wall Street Journal reported.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 2026

Spurs also thought they had a £60m deal to sign Nottingham Forest's gifted midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White, with a medical tentatively pencilled in.

From BBC Feb. 11, 2026

But given the slowdown in inflation, analysts at Capital Economics said they had now "pencilled in rate cuts towards the end of the year".

From Barron's Feb. 5, 2026

At night, in his dreams, he saw red X’s pencilled down the side of the store.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Now, he’s penciling in one rate hike this year.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

“We’ll see how it ends up penciling out in the end once we start to see some real results,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Economists remain divided on the BOK’s policy path, with some still penciling in a rate cut in the first quarter of 2026 and others maintaining that the current easing cycle may have already ended.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

The economic outlook has shifted considerably from earlier this year, with economists penciling in more growth and less inflation than previously expected.

From Barron's Oct. 13, 2025

All day one Saturday the girls gave each other curly permanent waves and plucked out their eyebrows, penciling a thin arc over each eye.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The lower consumer inflation figure for June gave policymakers enough "room to breathe" for now, but with further price rises expected Swonk was pencilling in two rate hikes for later this year.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Many experts are pencilling in sharper declines ahead, depending on how long the conflict lasts.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2026

More than 80% of companies have beaten so far and S&P500 companies are on course for annual profit growth of 2.6% for Q3 and pencilling in some 12% earnings expansion for 2024.

From Reuters Oct. 27, 2023

For next year, I am pencilling in “vaccine” and “post-pandemic”.

From The Guardian Nov. 26, 2020

Suppose, however, that the piece has a step in it, as in Figure 132, and the pencilling will be as in Figure 133.

From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Joshua Rose




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