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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.
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Andrew Moore, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Professional makeup artist Colby Smith encourages us to think of eyeshadow sticks as cream shadows in pencil form.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
So let’s mark Arizona, in pencil, for the second weekend of the NCAAs — but not the third.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
My mother marked our heights in pencil on the closet door and my father yelled at the radio when Barry Bonds struck out.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Moore, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Professional makeup artist Colby Smith encourages us to think of eyeshadow sticks as cream shadows in pencil form.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
So let’s mark Arizona, in pencil, for the second weekend of the NCAAs — but not the third.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
My mother marked our heights in pencil on the closet door and my father yelled at the radio when Barry Bonds struck out.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
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“In pencil.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20pencil. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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