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Some users spent hours asking their new overseas pen pals questions about their respective countries and cultures, ranging from what school lunch is like in Wisconsin to what a typical apartment looks like in Chengdu.
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Makena Kelly, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2025
Former Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt was a pen pal of Parsons at one point.
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
The story centered on two shop employees, played by Benanti and Levi, who, despite being consistently at odds with each other at work, are unaware that each is the other’s secret pen pal.
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Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
Here, musical legends feel like flesh-and-blood figures, especially as Dylan navigates Seeger as the old-guard angel on one shoulder and Bob’s pen pal Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) as the rebel devil on the other.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1925, in the meaning defined above
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“Pen pal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pen%20pal. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.
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pen pal
noun
: a friend made and kept through letter-writing
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