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He cleaned them and realized that the mark, which looked like it was from a pencil eraser, was in his own field of vision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Then he found a pencil and a sheet of paper and started writing.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The interesting twist is that Gapen and team not only think the Fed will hike in September, but now pencil in a second quarter-point hike in December.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Snapped in 1988, the photo shows a time he refers to as his “cholo” era, denoted by his subtle pencil mustache and slicked-back hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Alicia, who could literally not move for an entire class period, even when the teacher was waving a pencil in front of her eyes.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

“When a court says pencils down, that’s supposed to mean pencils down.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

Stay tuned for a follow-up featuring your creative collections, including Charlie Chaplin tees, golf pencils and copies of “Pride and Prejudice.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Then she gave away her pencils so everyone would like her, but that didn’t work.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

A day earlier, Kashkari said he penciled in one more rate hike in 2026 and another one next year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

But in commentary shared with MarketWatch, Slok said out that the gap between tech analysts’ rosy cash-flow forecasts and the more modest numbers being penciled in for other sectors was looking suspiciously wide.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

On Wednesday, the vote to raise rates was unanimous, and 16 of the 18 officials who submitted projections penciled in at least one more increase this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The vast majority of officials penciled in one more hike this year in interest-rate projections released after their meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Kainene raised her eyebrows; they were penciled in, thin fluid arcs.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fed officials also pencilled in another rate rise by the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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 the bottom of the last page he saw pencilled in a faint set of letters and figures.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Members of the wider policy committee signaled they aren’t afraid to raise interest rates to achieve that goal, penciling in at least one quarter-percentage-point hike by the end of 2026.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

“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

“This is almost too easy,” Shay said, penciling a pair of fat, black eyebrows over her own.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

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

Officials have offered more vocal support in recent days to earlier action and we are pencilling in a September announcement, but it is clear that the Covid resurgence could delay it.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2021

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 went methodically through the heavy morning's correspondence, pencilling a few notes here and there on the letters, and sorting them into baskets ranged on the table as he finished.

From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest