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And it’s because, when you take a photograph or a scan, that blue pencil disappears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

At BGC’s dinner event, elegant women in bright-red pencil dresses handed out drinks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Ten years ago Alec Palao was casually flicking through a collection of old records when he noticed some faint pencil markings that were enough to draw a gasp.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Then he found a pencil and a sheet of paper and started writing.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Sharpen your No. 2 pencils for next week’s newsletter, because I’ll be leading Investing 101, Don’t Short Yourself style.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Similarly, many school supplies are produced overseas, like pencils and crayons, which are predominantly imported from Brazil, China, Mexico and India.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 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

Managers of seven Southern California water agencies have been studying options for building the pipelines and pump stations to transport the water on land if the technology pencils out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Other boys and girls bent over their paper, writing, pausing to gnaw their pencils, writing again.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

But in commentary shared with MarketWatch, Slok said out that the gap between tech analysts’ rosy cash-flow forecasts and the more modest numbers being penciled in for other sectors was looking suspiciously wide.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

On Wednesday, the vote to raise rates was unanimous, and 16 of the 18 officials who submitted projections penciled in at least one more increase this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Right-hander Roki Sasaki is working back from a blister on his middle finger and is penciled in to return from the IL next week against the Padres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Most officials penciled in one more hike this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“There are the penciled dots that mark Speedy’s position.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Fed officials also pencilled in another rate rise by the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Beyond that, there's the spending plans the chancellor has pencilled in for future years.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 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

Danske’s Carsten Lonborg Madsen had pencilled in a revenue decline of between zero and minus 8% so the minus 5% to minus 13% range will necessitate a downgrade from him.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026

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

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Members of the wider policy committee signaled they aren’t afraid to raise interest rates to achieve that goal, penciling in at least one quarter-percentage-point hike by the end of 2026.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Wall Street analysts are already penciling in strong earnings growth — not just for large-cap companies, but for small-cap firms as well, FactSet data showed.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 9, 2026

The inflation outlook remains benign, and inflation expectations are firmly anchored, the BSP said, penciling in 2026 and 2027 inflation forecasts of 3.2% and 3.0%, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

In the meantime, below are 10 essential Latino performances we’ll be penciling into our schedule, listed in chronological order.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

“All right,” says the president, penciling in Annie’s name.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

While expectations of a swift eurozone rate hike have been tempered somewhat, some are now pencilling one in for the ECB's June meeting.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Most analysts expect further cuts in the RRR this year, with some also pencilling in modest cuts in policy rates if activity continues to cool.

From Reuters ● Jan. 12, 2022

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2020

Anytime you get Rahm in California pencilling in a top 10 is just a given at this point.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 12, 2020

I have made a trifling remark in page 6, but it is a mere matter of metaphysical nicety, and perhaps hardly worth pencilling your beautiful manuscript for.

From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville