pencil in
Example Sentences
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Outgoing Chair Jerome Powell last year shelved an attempt to revisit officials’ “dot plot” exercise, where they pencil in where they expect rates to go.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Isabel Schnabel -- widely considered a hawk who is particularly wary of inflation -- fuelled expectations of possible rate-rises down the line after telling Bloomberg she was "rather comfortable" to see traders pencil in hikes.
From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025
“I didn’t pencil in any cuts” next year, he said, because the Fed is going to have to maintain downward pressure “just to hold the line” on inflation.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025
You don't get a tick in the box if the name on the ballot paper means nothing to the voter clutching their stubby pencil in the voting booth.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
“Then let’s begin,” said Mr. Powell, and I’m not lying, when I took the black pencil in my fingers, it felt...spectacular.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
