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This penlike device used a BBQ lighter’s piezoelectric crystal, which generates a pulse of electricity when pressure is applied to it.

From Scientific American • Nov. 16, 2021

Its penlike, silver probe seems unnecessarily chunky at the tip; I had to initially coax it into the muscle of my marinated chuck steaks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 9, 2018

It’s obvious why: controlling your mobile device with a penlike thing meant having to carry something extra, and Jobs always disdained extra things.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2012

He uses the mouse to make penlike lines and then deletes the “underlying” hand-drawn sketch.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2011

Pilot users can jot notes and addresses into the machine with a tiny penlike stylus that traces letters onto the touch-sensitive screen, like an Etch-A-Sketch.

From Time Magazine Archive