mechanical pencil
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The video equipment has improved, but even now researchers often take waterproof notes by writing on pieces of PVC pipe with a mechanical pencil.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
I spent countless hours, belly on the floor, struggling with my math homework, pressing mechanical pencil to ruler.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
He pauses and produces a mechanical pencil and a green ink pen from his pocket: “You just need this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
I was drumming my mechanical pencil on the table for five minutes straight, stumped on this one problem, and barely had the stamina to continue.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2021
His penmanship was a sure indicator that he would have had a future at MIT, the minuscule mechanical pencil marks designed to maximize the amount of cryptic data a genius could record on one page.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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