writes

VERB

put language down on paper

Synonyms

STRONGEST

address compose create draft note pen print record rewrite scrawl scribble sign tell

STRONG

author autograph chalk commit communicate copy correspond engross formulate ghost indite ink inscribe letter pencil reproduce scribe transcribe typewrite

WEAK

bang out comp dash off draw up drop a line drop a note jot down knock off knock out note down push a pencil put in writing scriven set down set forth take down turn out write down write up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

destroy ignore ruin

STRONG

keep stop

WEAK

read

Example Sentences

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Writes Mr. Kurlansky: “Brown, the onetime pariah of abolitionism, was becoming its leading symbol.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

In June 2020, she published a lengthy essay on her website titled “J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023

In “AI Writes about Itself,” Almira Osmanovic Thunström describes how she and her colleagues instructed the artificial-intelligence algorithm GPT-3 to write a scientific paper with itself as the subject.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2023

Writes Acosta: “I also somehow ended up as one of the subjects of a documentary exploring altruism.”

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2021

Time on her brow with rough fingers Writes his record of smiles and tears; And her mind, like a golden timepiece, He stopped in the long past years.

From The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems by Shorter, Dora Sigerson