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Tempest borrowed the unit’s diary—a day-by-day chronicle of its actions, often scribbled in pencil by a junior officer—and placed advertisements in Bradford newspapers, asking to speak to other surviving members of the Sixth.
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
The progress is all recorded in pencil on a kitchen wall at his house.
—Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
The moment carved into stone what investors had been writing down in pencil: All this investment into AI computing power was going to create a windfall for Nvidia, whose cutting-edge graphics processing units, or GPUs, were used to train ChatGPT.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 May 2025
Some quality chambray shirts even come with a sewn in pencil holder.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
The progress is all recorded in pencil on a kitchen wall at his house.
—Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
The moment carved into stone what investors had been writing down in pencil: All this investment into AI computing power was going to create a windfall for Nvidia, whose cutting-edge graphics processing units, or GPUs, were used to train ChatGPT.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 May 2025
Some quality chambray shirts even come with a sewn in pencil holder.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
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“In pencil.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20pencil. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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