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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 • 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 • Sep. 28, 2023

"However, economic momentum will slow significantly under the weight of such a contractionary setting and we have pencilled in rate cuts for late 2023."

From Reuters • Jun. 8, 2022

They’ll tour both Europe and North America again later this year, and have pencilled in album No 4 for 2017.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2016

Mr. Levi and others have pencilled little sums in addition, subtraction, and multiplication on it.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan