PENS Synonyms: 197 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun (1)

plural of pen

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody earned six years in a federal pen

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outsides

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noun (2)

plural of pen

as in cages

an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals a goat pen

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noun (3)

plural of pen

as in writers

a person who creates a written work Alexander Hamilton is reckoned to be the pseudonymous pen behind two thirds of the Federalist Papers

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nonauthors

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of pen

as in houses

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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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of pen

as in writes

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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Recent Examples of pens

Noun

Some 104,643 defective pens were returned in the first 8 months of sales. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 Rug Island — named after a season two episode where the characters use their imagination to create an island from a rug, throw cushions and colored pens — comes on a green and orange LP. — Tim Chan, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2026 This deal includes a T-PEN stylus with 4,096 pressure levels, making creating digital art and writing feel as natural as possible without lugging around all your paints, pens, and canvases. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026 For about five days, the murres rotate between the drying pens — which blow warm air on the birds — and 80-degree pools of water inside the clinic. — Stephanie Zappelli, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Of the 14 horses who live in immaculate pens on the property, the majority were rescued from kill pens. — Lisa Hughes, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Dedicated faux freckle products use fine-tip pens and stamps designed specifically for placing small dots, offering different application options than brow pencils or eyeliner. — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026 Stabilo’s shift toward a lifestyle proposition will also see the brand stepping into the realm of digital accessories, bringing its colorful codes to digital pens, chargers and cables, among others. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 But Safdie kept adding more films, and then still more, in block letters using pens of different colors. — Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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This week, Gracie Abrams pens a tearjerker on mother-daughter relationships, Steve Lacy escapes the abyss of a breakup on a colossal double track, and Beabadoobee contemplates risk and reward on a fuzzy new single. — Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026 Sarah Rothschild pens the screenplay with Elizabeth Cantillon producing. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026 Amazon moved fast to board the project and the film will now be a big priority at the studio as Loeb pens the script. — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026 Yousafzai pens a portrait of a young woman discovering her identity amid immense pressure. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025 The series kicks off when Dale Washberg (Tim Blake Nelson), a member of a powerful Oklahoma family, pens a suicide note, hides it inside a book on his shelves, and then shoots himself in the head. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025 The plot kicks off when the Reverend Mother (a delightful Olivia Colman), who runs the Home for Retired Bears, pens a dire message to Paddington about his beloved Aunt Lucy. — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2025

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Noun

The $1 million would come from the same pool of mostly property-tax dollars that fund police, jails, parks and transit.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
And the administration persuaded more and more local police and jails to carry out the president’s mass deportation campaign, sweeping still more immigrants into custody.

— Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026

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In more recent years, the go-to option for an aspiring writer has been starting a newsletter of her own, often on Substack, a digital platform that launched in 2017 to allow writers to charge money for their writing.

— Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Fashionable gatherings were peppered with the prose of neoclassical writers and Romantic poets.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

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Zygielbaum was surprised however that the DOJ reached out only to him, and not the Republican clerk in neighboring Weld County, which also houses a sizable portion of that same congressional district.

— Miles Parks, NPR, 22 Oct. 2026
By 2018, the F50 had reportedly been acquired by Chinese billionaire and Instagram influencer Shin Mike Yin, who houses his collection of rare exotics—including a few examples from Pagani and Bugatti—in Dusseldorf, Germany.

— Howard Walker, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2026

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Gutierrez writes about that, his early childhood in Cuba, and leadership lessons from his career in his new book, Sheer Will.

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Shane Gillis’ dumb joke raised serious issues about women, fashion and sexuality, columnist Robin Abcarian writes.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of writes

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The Israeli Supreme Court earlier this year ordered the government to resume sharing such lists and allowing the ICRC to visit detainees in Israeli prisons to assess their conditions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Flávio has promised to designate major criminal factions as terrorist groups, expand prisons and lower the age of criminal responsibility.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

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Now that those demographics are changing and there are more non-white authors getting book deals and winning awards, there’s an emerging resentment, especially on social media.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
The new figure is a sharper downgrade than the authors’ earlier Hoover analysis.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

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