pencil
noun
a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
have pencilled
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present perfectof pencil.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For all the conversation around his recent form at club level, Southgate would have pencilled him in to start against Serbia in Gelsenkirchen.
From BBC β Jun. 6, 2024
“Our view is that the Bank will use the current window of opportunity to abandon negative interest rates and have pencilled in a rate hike in January next year.”
From Reuters β Sep. 28, 2023
"While it does not yet point to the 0.5% q/q contraction that we have pencilled in for Q4, the new orders and future output PMIs suggest that worse is to come."
From Reuters β Nov. 4, 2022
"We have pencilled in the first rate rise for late 2015 at the very earliest," he says.
From The Guardian β Apr. 28, 2013
Van Huysun could not have pencilled them with greater delicacy.'
From Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley
