pencil
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The researchers believe the bees mixed dirt with saliva to construct each tiny nest, which measured less than the size of a pencil eraser.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
I really pared back technology in my class, and we’ve pivoted back to paper and pencil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said inflation risks have led him to pencil in one rate increase by the end of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
"I got my pencil and ruler, and I joined them up, and I was aware that they were kind of pointing in the general direction of the sunrise on midsummer," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Excitedly he drew out a pencil and drew a line along the floor thirty inches from the back wall.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
UBS pencils in a pretax loss for the unit of around 100 million pounds for the year ending in September compared with a profit of 500 million pounds in fiscal 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Unfortunately, the other package has the colouring pencils, and I didn't get that one delivered yet.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Well, that is when dividend investors need to download the 10-K and sharpen their pencils.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
That night, I sat on the rug in my room with my pencils and new black pens scattered on the floor.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
At their June meeting, nine Fed officials penciled in a rate hike this year, with six pointing to more than one hike.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Analysts currently have penciled in bottom-up earnings growth of more than 23%, according to FactSet analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Specifically, Kashkari said he penciled in one rate hike in latest economic projections issued by the Fed last week.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Nine of 19 officials penciled in at least one rate rise by year-end, up from none in March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Initially, he penciled out a construction budget of $500,000; by the end of the year, the budget for construction and ten years of operation looked more like $2 million.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Beyond that, there's the spending plans the chancellor has pencilled in for future years.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
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
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
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
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
The inflation outlook remains benign, and inflation expectations are firmly anchored, the BSP said, penciling in 2026 and 2027 inflation forecasts of 3.2% and 3.0%, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
“This is almost too easy,” Shay said, penciling a pair of fat, black eyebrows over her own.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
While expectations of a swift eurozone rate hike have been tempered somewhat, some are now pencilling one in for the ECB's June meeting.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
More than 80% of companies have beaten so far and S&P500 companies are on course for annual profit growth of 2.6% for Q3 and pencilling in some 12% earnings expansion for 2024.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2023
Anytime you get Rahm in California pencilling in a top 10 is just a given at this point.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 12, 2020
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
At Reading she had despatched an answering telegram to her sister; and for nearly an hour afterwards, she had sat in the corner of her carriage, covering sheet after sheet of note-paper with hasty pencilling.
From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
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