as in housed
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
remember to pen up the dogs when visitors come over
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as in wrote
to compose and set down on paper the words of
though relatively unknown at the time of his death, the composer had penned some of the most memorable show tunes of his era
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as in inclosed
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Recent Examples of penned
Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
James Reginato, a writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and the former features director for W magazine, penned the copy, and Anna Wintour contributed the foreword.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Rolex tapped horological historian Nicholas Folkes to tackle its latest book; the writer had previously penned the Submariner tome as well, among his many other watch-centric titles.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2025
Sonnenblick has previously penned music and lyrics for The Devil Wears Prada, Spirited, and Theater Camp.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
Bobby Hart, who along with Tommy Boyce, penned and produced some of the Monkees’ greatest hits not only made a vital contribution to the popular success of the Monkees, but even more importantly to the essence, the very spirit of the entire venture.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
His words were accurate, but the piece was never submitted as an essay penned by him.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
This time around, the characters are being penned by Yuhei Murota, who worked on Love Live!
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
No other justices penned an opinion.
—Andrew Stanton
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
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The Michael Finch penned movie also stars Russell Crowe, Marisa Abela, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, Dave Bautista and Max Zhang.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Phoebe Eclair-Powell (The Road Trip) has penned the drama, her first series commission for television.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
James Reginato, a writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and the former features director for W magazine, penned the copy, and Anna Wintour contributed the foreword.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Rolex tapped horological historian Nicholas Folkes to tackle its latest book; the writer had previously penned the Submariner tome as well, among his many other watch-centric titles.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2025
Sonnenblick has previously penned music and lyrics for The Devil Wears Prada, Spirited, and Theater Camp.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
Bobby Hart, who along with Tommy Boyce, penned and produced some of the Monkees’ greatest hits not only made a vital contribution to the popular success of the Monkees, but even more importantly to the essence, the very spirit of the entire venture.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
His words were accurate, but the piece was never submitted as an essay penned by him.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
This time around, the characters are being penned by Yuhei Murota, who worked on Love Live!
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
No other justices penned an opinion.
—Andrew Stanton
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for penned
enclosed
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The restaurant has a capacity to seat 80, with an enclosed patio in the back.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The enclosed chamber offers very good heat regulation with an extruder fan, a part-cooling fan, an auxiliary part-cooling fan, and a fan to regulate the chamber.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
15 Aug. 2025
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