pen
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“But we are not looking for people to be pen pals, which seems to be what everybody wants to do. We need real help.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Police had fingerprint evidence linking a high-profile councillor to a poison pen letter up to 12 months before he went on to target another politician in a "persistent and wicked" hate mail campaign.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“This co-management agreement is really putting pen to paper on what is already happening on the ground,” said Geneva E.B.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
It was the same instinct that led him to pen and direct Barbarian, about an Airbnb stay gone very wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
I take it down, grab a pen from my desk, and draw a thick black line through the last item.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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On Sunday, I penned a column predicting the star-studded Rams would go undefeated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Even worse, Zaslav torched multiple projects while reportedly calling in personal favors for celebrity friends like Nicholas Pileggi, who penned the script for WBD’s 2025 bomb The Alto Knights, at great expense to the studio.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
And in 2014, he penned a Bloomberg Businessweek essay coming out as gay, becoming the first Fortune 500 CEO to do so.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
In one remarkable 1973 writing session, Parton penned two of her signature hits – Jolene and I Will Always Love You.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Very small, on the inside of his left wrist, is my name, Isabella, penned in a really pretty cursive next to a small purple daisy.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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Here she comes again, penning a song for the 2005 movie “Transamerica” that would go on to receive an Academy Award nomination.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
They had to find new ways to use their two best players, center Karl-Anthony Towns and point guard Jalen Brunson, instead of penning them into pre-defined roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
She continued writing while working as a doctor specialising in brain disorders in Boston, Massachusetts, and her publishing career took off when she began penning psychological thrillers.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
By the time she had finished penning the propulsive tale, “I almost felt like I owed them an apology,” Arnott admits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
There seemed to be nothing penning them in.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Most everyone is pent up, ready to pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025
Aswan remembers taking her driving theory test: "I got so pent up about passing it first time that when I failed by a couple of points I've never tried to get it back."
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
And when Anisimova’s final return of serve flew wide, Sabalenka released all of the pent up tension by sinking to her knees and weeping onto the court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2025
“Post-COVID, we got this big influx of revenge travel, where everyone’s so pent up indoors and they’re just like, ‘Get me out there,’ ” McElroy explains.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2024
I could feel it, and smell it, pent up there, behind the clouds.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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