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
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
He outlines her portrait in mechanical pencil, one of several weighing down his front pocket.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2018
I imagine that a core sample taken from one of these painted walls — a little cylinder the width of mechanical pencil lead, say — could be analyzed like tree rings.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2018
A bright green mechanical pencil with a nubby pink eraser at the end.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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