pencil
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For completeness a pencil is included in the tape exhibit.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
Writer Greg Stolze posted a while back about “some professor” who “put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying ‘Hi!
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Under specific conditions, what normally looks like a scattered and disordered laser signal can reorganize itself into a narrow, highly focused "pencil beam."
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
In his classic 1958 essay, “I, Pencil,” Leonard Read explained how a free-market economy brought together the necessary raw materials—wood, graphite, metal, rubber, paint—to make as apparently simple a product as a pencil.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
Some were pencil thin, others were made of little dots, and one was like a thick vine of ivy.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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