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pencil

[pen-suhl] / ˈpɛn səl /






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Mr. Payne went several times to General Pencil Co. in Jersey City, N.J., to document how these indispensable writing and drawing implements are made by the thousands and tens of thousands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

Style: Pencil mustache, cowboy hat, Nashville-style leisure suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024

Instead, Igounet decided to produce a comic book: “Black Pencil: Samuel Paty, the Story of a Teacher,” based on two years of reporting and made with the illustrator Guy Le Besnerais, was published in October.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

In his poem Pencil Me In, he wrote:

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

He had come home after working until four a.m. at the Pen and Pencil Club, the North End bar he owned.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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