in pencil

idiom

: by using a pencil
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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 The shades are also available in pencil and marker form, both as a set of eight. Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Mar. 2025 During a visit last fall, a representative from Pace Gallery, Samaras’s longtime dealer, pulled a black binder from a shelf, one among dozens lined up in an orderly row, to reveal hundreds more self-portraits, intricately etched in pencil. Andrew Moore, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in pencil

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“In pencil.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20pencil. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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