pencil
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But how would any of that pencil out with Dodger Stadium closed most of the year, and with gondola traffic chipping away at revenue from parking fees that start at a monstrous $40?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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
“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
"I got my pencil and ruler, and I joined them up, and I was aware that they were kind of pointing in the general direction of the sunrise on midsummer," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
They were pictures he’d drawn with his complimentary pencil.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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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
UBS pencils in a pretax loss for the unit of around 100 million pounds for the year ending in September compared with a profit of 500 million pounds in fiscal 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Well, that is when dividend investors need to download the 10-K and sharpen their pencils.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Peake said when he was in space batteries, pencils, pens and a pair of scissors all floated past during spacewalks.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
As I was going upstairs to fetch my portfolio and pencils, Mrs. Fairfax called to me: “Your morning school-hours are over now, I suppose,” said she.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Markets are largely expecting rates to be held this month, with a rate hike penciled in for September, though renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities could justify Fed governors raising rates now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
And he’s penciled in to pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Further advances of 25% and 23.7% are penciled in for the final six months of the year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The trend slammed into reverse on Wednesday after the latest Federal Reserve projections penciled in the risk of an interest-rate hike later this year, spooking stock-market investors.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 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
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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
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
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
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The spike in global energy prices hasn’t deterred Wall Street analysts from penciling in increasingly higher estimates for corporate profits in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 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
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
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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
And while full-year earnings growth estimates for S&P500 companies have sunk to zero, consensus forecasts are now pencilling in a rebound of almost 12% next year.
From Reuters ● Feb. 16, 2023
For next year, I am pencilling in “vaccine” and “post-pandemic”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2020
"What are you writing there, Cox?" said another, to the keen-eyed man, who was pencilling something on a card.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James