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On average, about 1 million bacteria live on every patch of skin roughly the size of a pencil eraser.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

"We recognize that sometimes its signature was written in pencil."

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Buying an EV still doesn’t pencil out for a typical American driver even with higher prices at the pump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Fishman also says Cusack’s greased-back hair and pencil mustache were partly inspired by Eric Roberts in “Star 80.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

A small gazelle dropped her pencil case and started crying.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

Sharpen your No. 2 pencils for next week’s newsletter, because I’ll be leading Investing 101, Don’t Short Yourself style.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Similarly, many school supplies are produced overseas, like pencils and crayons, which are predominantly imported from Brazil, China, Mexico and India.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

Labour peer Baroness Theresa Griffin of Princethorpe said she was once left in airport "holding pens" and given colouring pencils while travelling to Strasbourg.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Managers of seven Southern California water agencies have been studying options for building the pipelines and pump stations to transport the water on land if the technology pencils out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

We both shouted that we would, as I grabbed my notebook and two new pencils, ready to write down everything.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Tyler Glasnow, who hasn’t pitched since May 6, is penciled in to start Tuesday against the Atlanta Braves, without any limitations, Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

That metric compares a stock’s price with the expected rate of growth that analysts have penciled in for the company’s earnings over the coming years.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

And he’s penciled in to pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

That compared with $3.85 billion and $18.61 billion a year earlier, and is below the $4.47 billion and $19.47 billion in revenue that analysts polled by FactSet had penciled in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Hadn’t a message once come to the Beje under a stamp, penciled in the tiny square beneath?

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

But given the slowdown in inflation, analysts at Capital Economics said they had now "pencilled in rate cuts towards the end of the year".

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

Danske’s Carsten Lonborg Madsen had pencilled in a revenue decline of between zero and minus 8% so the minus 5% to minus 13% range will necessitate a downgrade from him.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026

Before Ilia Topuria decided to take a hiatus, Pimblett was pencilled in to fight Charles Oliveira next.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

Canada's race switches from June to 22-24 May so it can take place in the same month as the Miami Grand Prix, which is pencilled in for 1-3 May.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

At night, in his dreams, he saw red X’s pencilled down the side of the store.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

“We’ll see how it ends up penciling out in the end once we start to see some real results,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Eurozone GDP expanded just 0.1% in the first quarter of this year, with some economists penciling in a contraction in the April-June period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Wall Street analysts are already penciling in strong earnings growth — not just for large-cap companies, but for small-cap firms as well, FactSet data showed.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 9, 2026

Fed policymakers had previously indicated in their September Summary of Economic Projections that they were penciling in rate cuts at both the October and December meetings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

All day one Saturday the girls gave each other curly permanent waves and plucked out their eyebrows, penciling a thin arc over each eye.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The lower consumer inflation figure for June gave policymakers enough "room to breathe" for now, but with further price rises expected Swonk was pencilling in two rate hikes for later this year.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Most analysts expect further cuts in the RRR this year, with some also pencilling in modest cuts in policy rates if activity continues to cool.

From Reuters ● Jan. 12, 2022

These will help get that hole out of your head and let you start pencilling in a good score on the card.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 7, 2018

He also said he was "pencilling in" three further increases next year, as interest rates returned gradually to "a normal level" of about 2.5%.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2017

The lips, serene and passionate, deeply sunken at the corners and shadowed with a pencilling of down, were the lips of Spain; all the mystery of the South was in the grave and tragic eyes.

From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick