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So seeing those blue pencil marks tells you that a piece is real?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The interesting twist is that Gapen and team not only think the Fed will hike in September, but now pencil in a second quarter-point hike in December.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Dad is in perpetual mourning for a son who died in the first Gulf War and considers John, in comparison, a milquetoasty pencil pusher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Father would stand at his vantage point on the platform almost on tiptoe with the joy of precision, holding his pocket watch and a pad and pencil.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The max charging rate of 150 kW pencils out to a 10%-80% recharge in 28 minutes, under ideal conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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

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

Participants are provided with an art pack full of supplies like acrylics, pencils, watercolours and pastels with the condition that they create up to four pieces of artwork.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The drafting table was bare except for a blotter and a Sox mug full of mechanical pencils.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

A day earlier, Kashkari said he penciled in one more rate hike in 2026 and another one next year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Fed officials penciled in at least one more increase this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

The report accepted as read Ellison’s “commitment” that the merged company would produce 30 feature films a year for three years, and penciled out the potential economic gains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Compton returned to his Washington hotel and penciled out a budget of $300,000 to cover the next six months.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

He was pencilled in to spend time with the club's sporting director and figures from their administrative, commercial and marketing departments.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

The Fed currently has one cut pencilled in, and will update this forecast next week.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 6, 2025

At the bottom of the last page he saw pencilled in a faint set of letters and figures.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

In June, the Fed’s “dot plot” forecast of interest rates showed a dramatic shift toward tightening, with nine officials penciling at least one rate hike this year and six penciling in more than one.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

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

“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

“We’re not penciling in a recession or anything like that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

“This is almost too easy,” Shay said, penciling a pair of fat, black eyebrows over her own.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

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

These will help get that hole out of your head and let you start pencilling in a good score on the card.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 7, 2018

“The Clarendon,” said Mrs Girdwood, taking out her card-case, and pencilling the name upon a card.

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid