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Hunched over a desk in the Mountain State Spotlight newsroom in Charleston, West Virginia, pen in hand, we scrawled out official notice of our new school in a spiral-bound notebook.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
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
Neatly drawn in black ballpoint pen, the documents displayed what appeared to be official tables of production figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
In fact, Kim wrote essays under the pen name Su-wha, which translates to "conversation with trees".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
I find a pen and draw doodles over Dorothy Dingle on my jeans.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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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
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
But he also knew that he was seeing something instinctual and primal taking hold of his penned dogs.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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
Pochettino’s faith in the power of fruit and candles and his penchant for penning aphorisms hasn’t taken away from the ferociousness of his approach to soccer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Prior to his TV career, Shalit was a senior film critic for Look Magazine, and continued to spend years penning columns in the New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal and TV Guide.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
She started at the Journal covering the New York City restaurant industry, later penning a metro column for a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
There seemed to be nothing penning them in.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
Toxic energy and animosity get pent up, and carried out into the yard.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
And when Anisimova’s final return of serve flew wide, Sabalenka released all of the pent up tension by sinking to her knees and weeping onto the court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2025
Tell me what happened, but there was such a powerful need in me, pent up for so long, to speak about it, to say the words.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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