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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

In the weeks leading up to the publication of the essay, Hassabis previewed his idea to Bessent and Kratsios.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

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

That she’d come over to see Pearl, that Pearl was helping her with an essay.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

All of the essays traffic, to one degree or another, in emotional pain, and some have at their core the grievous dislocations of mental illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

In two essays published shortly before his Makerfield campaign, Haigh set out a vision for a radical reshaping of the British state.

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

In 1585 Giovanni Battista Benedetti published a collection of essays in which he dealt, among much else, with issues in contemporary cosmology.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

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

It had come to her knowledge that you and I were together in London—that you were once more essaying to play a part in civilised and great affairs.

From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim