penned
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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
Canadian author Melanie Florence, who penned “Sarabeth’s Garage” — another of Imagination Library’s picks — also grew up in a small town, with no bookstore, during a time with no online retailers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
It means effectively not only that you must walk a prescribed distance each day but then spend the night penned up with strangers.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
