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write

[rahyt] / raɪt /


VERB
to use a computer language, program
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The market’s ebullient response may suggest that some traders misunderstood the vaccine as a preventative treatment, they write, and Moderna may still not reach profitability until 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

That’s why past rulings said one plywood manufacturer couldn’t write off Super Bowl tickets but a struggling fashion designer could deduct the costs incurred with a local television appearance.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

“So I went home and I thought, Well, what do you do best? You write songs.”

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

Inspired by her father who couldn’t read or write, she launched the Imagination Library in 1999, which gave free books to children in Tennessee.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

I gesture for Theo to wait in the guest parlor to the right, while I continue to my mother’s private study, the place where she would plan the week’s menus and write her correspondence.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

“Yamani felt his anger rise,” Mr. Warrick writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The mansion’s interior is “not heavy or dark,” she writes, “rather it is light and mellow and the panels have finely carved patterns around their edges.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a Calvin University historian who writes about white evangelicals and gender, was not surprised.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

“Give the tenant the correct notice,” he writes.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

“Among pilots, there are no gender stereotypes,” said Anastasia Dagaeva in 2017, a Russian student pilot in civil aviation who writes for Forbes Russia.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Byrd and Roberts can still ask the First District Court of Appeal to review the denial of their Stand Your Ground motion before trial, through a petition for a writ of prohibition.

From Slate Aug. 11, 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

From the moment a writ is moved in Parliament - the process of formally triggering a by-election - it usually takes place between 21 and 27 working days.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Upon the wall, writ large, was a chart labeled “Mammalia — or, Beasts that Give Suck.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“There are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness,” he wrote in his viral essay.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

She wrote and sang the Oscar-nominated song “Travelin’ Thru” from the 2005 movie “Transamerica,” about a transgender woman and her son.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

"Had it been the only song she'd ever written, the expression of overwhelming pride and crushing anguish... would have secured her indelible legacy," the US magazine wrote in 2023.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Last time you wrote about this, the U.S. and Canada were negotiating new trade terms.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

But Elisha’s letters also contained condescension disguised as compliment: “You have more brain than I gave you credit for,” or, “I had no idea you wrote or thought so well.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

"Had it been the only song she'd ever written, the expression of overwhelming pride and crushing anguish... would have secured her indelible legacy," the US magazine wrote in 2023.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

“So they were certainly written within a very short span of time.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

One reason to be confident that AI’s market-beating odds won’t improve in any lasting way is a famous article written nearly forty years ago by William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel laureate in economics.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

A taboo-breaking book about Vladimir Putin's rise to power and private life, written by two exiled Russian journalists, won a newly established French literary prize on Tuesday.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

But nothing came to mind, and now it had been—I checked the time stamps—seven minutes since he’d written, so it was better not to message back at this point.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

In a post uploaded to Instagram, actor Jamie Lee Curtis upheld Dolly’s bravery, writing that “she was more than they thought she was.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Parton took her writing seriously, and considered herself a songwriter over everything else.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

By 2002 Mr. Blair had so many corrections at the New York Times that his editor, Jonathan Landman, wrote colleagues: “We have to stop Jayson from writing for the Times. Right now.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

She began performing as a child to help support her family, and began writing songs — often with her uncle, country singer Bill Owens — as a teenager.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

“Please vote by writing the name or the number of your candidate on the paper, and then fold it over,” the teacher said.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott




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