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And in 2014, he penned a Bloomberg Businessweek essay coming out as gay, becoming the first Fortune 500 CEO to do so.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history,” he wrote in a 12-page essay published to his personal website Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Curlee, who has since resigned from the Central Intelligence Agency after 20 years of service, recently shared her experience in a first-person essay published by The Atlantic magazine.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

It’s a tender, naked and amusing personal essay, grounded in the now while looking both backward and forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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

Wang, 56, who became a delivery rider around 2019, gained traction on social media for his poems and essays.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

Stacks of books, tables littered with essays and commentaries, piles of Jewish magazines—these Orthodox homes form one of the few demographics where the printed word still thrives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

I turn on my bedside lamp and pick up the book of essays.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

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

Milt essayed, “We can have it ready in ten days. We’ll deliver it during the day while your husband is at work.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

Mrs. Morgan herself sits beside the coffin, at intervals giving way to wildest grief, a cluster of women around vainly essaying to comfort her.

From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid