penned
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Woodall still works at the Economist as the Asian editor, but the commemorative article published in the August issue was penned by Simon Cox.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Hogh - who scored 54 goals in 103 games for Norwegians Bodo/Glimt, five of which were in last season's Champions League - has penned a four-year deal with the option of a further year.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
That musical’s writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, penned the songs for the 2016 film alongside Opetaia Foaʻi and Mark Mancina; dutifully reprised here, they remain basically persuasive works of Disney pop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But the film’s screenplay — a biting, laugh-a-minute wonder penned by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack — shrewdly plays with genre conventions and audience expectations, illuminating more depth with every other sentence.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Fifty sows with farrows were penned in each, bedded upon the earth, while the boars lay outside—fewer by far, as those well-fatted were for the suitors’ table, fine pork, sent by the swineherd every day.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
