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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

A pen portrait from Germeney's mother, read out at the beginning of the inquest by the coroner, said Germeney and the children were "our complete world" and "were beautiful, funny, extremely kind, loving and caring".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

She was turned away from me, reaching out for her journal and pen.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

In one remarkable 1973 writing session, Parton penned two of her signature hits – Jolene and I Will Always Love You.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Mr. Scholz composed nine of the LP’s 11 tracks, co-writing “Smokin’ ” with Delp, who penned “Let Me Take You Home Tonight.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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

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

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

The earliest recorded contest took place at Chalds in around 700 bc, the poet Hesiod proudly penning a few lines in celebration of his winning a solo singing class there.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Aswan remembers taking her driving theory test: "I got so pent up about passing it first time that when I failed by a couple of points I've never tried to get it back."

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 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

Toxic energy and animosity get pent up, and carried out into the yard.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

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