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But as any parent with children applying to college can tell you, diversity prompts abound on essay questions, and land acknowledgments remain here and there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the essay Robinson said his credentials include overseeing the writing of safety reports on 12 advanced model product launches and leading the drafting of OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Connie Alexander, the head of the Santa Barbara chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, condemned the incident in an opinion essay for the Independent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Even people who vehemently disagree with the points made in the essay should feel a bit uneasy about the Cornell community’s response.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

We have to write an essay called “The Real Me.”

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

Year: 2022 Compiled by: Dan Kois and Slate Staff Of note: Accompanied by several supplemental essays, including a ranking by Chris Molanphy of “The Top 5 Mob Movie Deaths of All Time.”

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

“So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country” is a collection of essays adapted from speeches he has given since 2007, many with straightforward titles, including “Let Judges Be Judges.”

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

"When you realize the impact the work will have, people can't help but weigh in," Diamos says -- which helps explain Amodei's many sprawling essays.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The prolific and acclaimed writer and activist used his liberal beliefs and his agrarian roots in Kentucky to craft novels, poems and essays connecting the natural world to humankind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Unfortunately, the English class was taught by vuvv tech, which didn’t have much of a reason to care whether we could write five-paragraph essays or not.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

In the second cast, Christine Shevchenko fell far short of Ms. Teuscher’s finesse, but she essayed the opening “Preghiera” movement with more of its requisite lilt and shimmer than Ms. Teuscher did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

That section essayed — at the very least — to disqualify from federal office the Civil War rebels and, prospectively, anyone who tried to do the same thing again.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2023

Before the Schubert, Vogt and the Tetzlaffs had essayed the three Brahms trios, as well as two by Dvorak; with Christian alone, there were accounts of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Meanwhile, dos Santos — with an army of around 100,000 troops, many with years of jungle combat experience — essayed a role as a regional power broker, starting with neighboring countries.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Here, Sinatra is clearly stretching the limits of what was possible for a popular singer—one can’t imagine any of his predecessors or contemporaries essaying a work as long and complex as this.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

The actress was a member of the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1972-75, essaying Lady Macbeth in 1972.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2020

Like all reflective objects though, the act of essaying has a twoness about it.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2020

All eyes would otherwise be on Antony Sher, who is essaying this most daunting of tragic roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Barbican directed by Gregory Doran.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2016

All men predict evil; and no one thinks of beginning the reform with himself, and so essaying to turn off the rod.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle