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write

[rahyt] / raɪt /


VERB
to use a computer language, program
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“The lesson of history is that alliance systems often prove more resilient in retrospect than contemporary observers expect at the time,” they write.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

"The next decade will write the story of the next century."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The changes will leave Informa as a more “pure play” company, betting on the increasing value of events in an artificial intelligence world, the analysts write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Bartlett has also been approached by Paramount Global Publishing to write a novel version of his Helga spinoff idea “The Patakis” and is currently in talks about a “Hey Arnold!” graphic novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Most kids are forced to write letters way before they’re physically ready, but there’s no need to rush it.”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

"It is not know how Andy will repay it," the paper writes.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Here’s where you say that this is just how Sorkin writes characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

He was “instructing me how to give the impression . . . that something was taking place even though it wasn’t,” Mr. Lloyd writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Barclays writes that the attempts by legacy media companies to adapt to major technological shifts have created “monsters” that eventually collapse.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

While there, she writes a letter to Dr. Frederick Johansen, the medical officer in charge at Carville, to let him know she is in Louisiana and will arrive soon.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“We always think about it as sort of two audiences—as folks in the room, but it’s also the internet writ large,” said Mark Doumet, vice president of originals marketing for HBO and HBO Max.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

I have been betrayed by a pretty face, my secret writ large for the world.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Bill Plaschke wrote that the Dodgers are “now just eight wins away but, given how mediocre the American League playoff teams appear, they could realistically be just four wins away.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The famous naturalist John Muir wrote about visiting the “charming spot” during his excursion through the Sierra in the summer of 1869.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

It can't be a coincidence that a song she wrote after signing her divorce papers became her breakthrough hit.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

I bid on a couple of things I knew I wouldn’t win, then bought a pretty notebook for Lorren, who loved pretty notebooks so much that she never wrote in them.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

The first thing to know about “Oh, Mary!”—if the cacophonous enthusiasm for its off-Broadway run hadn’t reached your ears—is that the play, written by Cole Escola and centered on Mary Todd Lincoln, is howlingly funny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"People were written off, now we're paying for that," he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Even with “Digger,” Cruise’s most ambitious project in years, he confines himself to a loud, obnoxious character destined to be written about as a “big swing.”

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

At Sorkin’s version of the Wall Street Journal, everyone up and down the masthead — editors, writers, even interns — insults each other with such relish that someone should be written up by HR.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The teacher had written it the same way she had written the others.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Kate King covers retail and hotel real estate for The Wall Street Journal, writing frequently about the evolution of in-person and online shopping, the changing mall landscape and issues affecting lodging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Metro headlines with "not 100% faithful", writing that a Royal Navy sailor has appeared in court after "allegedly plotting to pass British secrets to Russia".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Since then, the university has investigated the “Cornell Seven”—the seven frat brothers directly involved—and imposed discipline ranging from expulsion to compulsory essay writing.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

Over the last decade, Cruise has resigned himself to action stardom, writing death-defying stunts into his contracts.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

It was buried under the stack of school stuff I moved out of the way when I was in the zone writing the other night.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison




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