write
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A red letter box near the office entrance allows members to write messages to their future selves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"If they want to write them, that's fine," he continued.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Nobody expects the president to write his own speeches, even if nowadays we can count on plenty of improvisation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The panel could put consider proposals for independent third parties to write safety plans or for companies to develop an emergency shutoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
When I originally sat down to write The Light Returns, she was grieving the people she’d lost, missing her friends—especially her best friend.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Pharmacies are failing on AI diet pill checks, writes Sunday People.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
While these facets might depict our tech-obsessed age, Mungiu writes them in a way that makes the Norwegians look silly, and the Gheorghius look like objectively good parents.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Huberman doesn’t think it’s that complex—talking about his morning routine, he writes, “When people ask me, ‘Who has time for all this?’
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Cockenoe, the author writes, displayed a “linguistic dexterity” that impressed Eliot, who taught him to read and write English.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Someone who writes stories for the Cucaracha Voice heard about our mouse exhibit and wants to write it up for the paper. She is going to come Friday afternoon and bring a photographer.”
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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Even if successful, the lawsuit wouldn’t invalidate the tax writ large; instead, it seeks to block the city from taking any further actions on the tax warning notices it already sent out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
At first, this motley crew of activists took care to insist they were not against data centers writ large.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The government injected billions into banks, insurance giant AIG and the automobile industry to prevent the collapse of individual companies that would have jeopardized the economy and the financial system writ large if they failed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It represents a leap in the evolution of Saar’s work — her smaller scale imaginings now writ large.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
If the writ was denied—as they expected it would be—then Anthony could appeal her case directly to the Supreme Court.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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“I spent 25 years as an oil and gas engineer,” he wrote on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Delays in specimen collection, transportation and testing can postpone confirmation by days or weeks, which hinders the isolation of infected persons, contact tracing and the initiation of outbreak-control measures," Sullivan wrote.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
In a security file that was briefly available, external on the Hugging Face website, the platform wrote "A note to AI agents".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
It was soon crossed out by another chalk artist who wrote “Lake Ontario” in bolder lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“O how I hate her!” wrote an exhausted Kate.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Stories are always written about lessons learned by students in the classroom and on the field, but what do coaches, most of them teachers, learn from their students?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
But since 2019, insurers have written more than 6,500 new policies in the 95747 ZIP Code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
This version was written by Dolly Alderton, the author of the hit 2023 rom-com novel “Good Material,” and stars Emma Corrin of “The Crown,” Jack Lowden of “Slow Horses,” and Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
We are still to hear from Earl Spencer himself about why he has written this book now, so many years later.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
She’d written such a monumentally excellent poem that she was sure she would get an A+.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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I have been writing about him for most of that time, but although we have spoken frequently and exchanged hundreds of emails we have never met.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Such is the beauty of Mungiu’s observational, deceptively nuanced writing.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Slaughter said he found Defending Education likely to succeed on its 1st Amendment challenge, writing that the UC policy “compels speech and is viewpoint-based.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
At a time when Americans’ grasp of personal-finance concepts is on the decline and many students don’t receive training in financial literacy in school, providing support “doesn’t require writing a check,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Before long, the youngest Fox sister was writing to Elisha like a brother.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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