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[pen] / pɛn /








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It was resolved with two checks, two strokes of the pen.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

Another lawyer accused him of stealing a $1,000 Montblanc pen at a courthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Trapped in this stiffer, earlier incarnation, the only acting Strong is able to do is poke his head straight up from his shoulders until he resembles a retractable pen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

He’s the pen behind 2005’s “Just the Girl” by the Click Five, which laid a mall-emo whine and reverb-heavy drums over The Wonders’ tried and true formula.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

I find a pen and draw doodles over Dorothy Dingle on my jeans.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

Parton penned many songs about all different aspects of her relationship with her devoted husband Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt paving business in Nashville.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Fifty sows with farrows were penned in each, bedded upon the earth, while the boars lay outside—fewer by far, as those well-fatted were for the suitors’ table, fine pork, sent by the swineherd every day.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

Wilson -- behind an acclaimed translation which Nolan has praised -- generated headlines this week after penning a scathing critique of his screenplay.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

After a steady run of penning, producing and directing various projects, Blaustein made a career pivot in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

That means writers penning all their own work—and people who acknowledge using chatbots for help—are trying to master something they never worried about before: how to sound human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

That he did all this while also penning some of the greatest novels ever written simply goes to show that “Those who do, do much. Those who talk, talk much.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

“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

Having been pent up for so long, friendless and homesick, they go wild in the safety of Luna’s generic apartment, which scenic designer Tanya Orellana furnishes with makeshift graduate school touches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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

I could feel the evilness flowing through my body and waiting, pent up, to rush off my tongue if I tried to open my mouth.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou


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