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[pen] / pɛn /








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Jeanne de Montagnac, 29, stood by her husband and two-year-old daughter, perched on his shoulders with a telephone number scribbled in biro pen on her arm.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

"My Brownie leader came in with a cigar box full of names and asked if anyone would like a pen pal from Scotland," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

But because patients are microdosing, one $499 Ozempic pen goes much farther, bringing the monthly cost well below that, says Vidali.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“But we are not looking for people to be pen pals, which seems to be what everybody wants to do. We need real help.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Though the ink didn’t move, he could imagine Ella St. Clay’s pen moving furiously across the pages.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Pochin and Braverman were among the MPs to respond to an open letter penned by a group of Piddington's female residents, addressed to all women MPs.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Even worse, Zaslav torched multiple projects while reportedly calling in personal favors for celebrity friends like Nicholas Pileggi, who penned the script for WBD’s 2025 bomb The Alto Knights, at great expense to the studio.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

And in 2014, he penned a Bloomberg Businessweek essay coming out as gay, becoming the first Fortune 500 CEO to do so.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

On a Turkish hillside overlooking the olive-covered slopes outside Izmir is a cave known to generations of locals as the place where Homer penned "The Odyssey".

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

They’re penned in, guarded on all sides by Peacekeepers.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Here she comes again, penning a song for the 2005 movie “Transamerica” that would go on to receive an Academy Award nomination.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

Although Samuel came to the studio with the structure for his songs already in place, they worked on melodies and writing in Spanish together, since this was his first time penning lyrics in the language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

They had to find new ways to use their two best players, center Karl-Anthony Towns and point guard Jalen Brunson, instead of penning them into pre-defined roles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

She continued writing while working as a doctor specialising in brain disorders in Boston, Massachusetts, and her publishing career took off when she began penning psychological thrillers.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

There seemed to be nothing penning them in.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

“There isn’t a lot of pent up inflationary pressure in the economy,” Macklem said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Australian migration agent Mark Welch said there was a pent up demand following Brexit, which was combined with those who weren't able to go because of Covid-19.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

Most everyone is pent up, ready to pop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025

“Post-COVID, we got this big influx of revenge travel, where everyone’s so pent up indoors and they’re just like, ‘Get me out there,’ ” McElroy explains.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2024

The pent up horror, grief and humiliation of a lifetime—half a century—was being stripped from me.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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