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"Just like sighted students write out their calculations in pencil, we enter them in braille on the Hansone to follow the steps," he said.

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Stretching from Alaska to the pencil tip of Argentina, the 48,000km-long Pan-American Highway holds the record for the world's longest road navigable by motor vehicle.

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When policymakers agreed to cut rates by a quarter of a percentage point in September, 10 of 19 officials, a slim majority, penciled in cuts for October and December.

I saw a lady wearing a necklace that had a silver pencil shaped like Cleopatra’s Needle.

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Next, he uses a steel pointed pencil to scratch the design into the silver and washes off the paint.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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