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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of early web titan Netscape, perhaps started this trend in 2023 with a 5,000-word essay he called "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", which argued innovation was the way to solve life's problems.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Not only does this grant Bonta VIP access to the moral highground, it all but negates Ellison’s recent New York Times guest essay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Zuckerberg in his Monday essay wrote of a world where “open-source” models allow anyone and everyone to harness AI’s power and bend it to their own purposes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

In June, as I was drafting this essay, we experienced another pregnancy loss, this time a rare and dangerous type of ectopic pregnancy.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

I should tell her about the personal essay contest so she can submit, too.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The justices have been writing essays about the problem for a decade while the seizures continue.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Even if you did not like the political observations of some of those magazines, essays, critiques, poetry or whatever was in ther, these are feelings from the people, and they’re protected under the First Amendment.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

We've all been there: putting off certain tasks then being left with essays up to the wire, loads of messages unread and that bedroom sort-out that just never happens.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

One 2025 MIT study went viral for its finding that students using generative AI to write essays displayed less critical thinking capability.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

She posted these great rambling essays about her search for Halliday’s egg, which she called a “maddening MacGuffin hunt.”

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

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

David Tennant, then BBC's "Doctor Who," essayed the role in 2008 to great acclaim; Jude Law did it a year later to rather less.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2015

"You got to go, Ralph. You go away now-" He wagged his spear and essayed fierceness.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

Pianists performing with the Phil include Yuja Wang playing Mozart, Ax tackling Franck's "Symphonic Variations," Yefim Bronfman serving up a mid-season helping of Beethoven and Jean-Yves Thibaudet essaying Grieg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2015

"That is all we ask," said De Berniers, essaying a comical grimace, which tempted M. de Terville to order his ejection by the domestics.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various