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write

[rahyt] / raɪt /


VERB
to use a computer language, program
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McNish could not find time to write poetry while studying modern and medieval languages at the University of Cambridge, where she stayed on to gain a masters in economics.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Picking up the pace is a worthy goal, he said, but that would mean beefing up the workforce, disrupting traffic and commerce with more street closures, and asking customers to write bigger checks.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

If something goes wrong on a trip, I write about it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

His formula—AI to read life’s grammar, synthesis to write it, authorship of species as the outcome—recurs so often it begins to feel like an incantation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

I could freeze again, like I did when we were supposed to write about our names on the first day of writing class and my mind went blank.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

But Mr. Devine writes about these establishment shenanigans as though he was surprised that a candidate who attacked the establishment would invite a defense.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

As someone who writes now and again about aging, I’ve been giving this some thought.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Sebastian Junger, author of the book “War” and co-director of the Academy Award nominated documentary “Restrepo,” writes the “Tribe with Sebastian Junger” Substack.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

"The internet is a lot. It is too much, constantly, in every direction," writes Jamie Slack on her blog, Totally the Bomb, external.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

He writes on the board career hits = 150 and at-bats = 500.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

Reform UK had originally hoped the vote would be held on 6 August but Tendring District Council received the writ on Friday and announced the date would be a week later.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Nonalcoholic drinks are still tiny compared with the $100 billion-plus U.S. alcoholic-beverage industry writ large.

From MarketWatch Jul. 3, 2026

Across Havana, the ravages of time, lack of maintenance and overcrowding is writ large in the facades of one of the best preserved colonial cities in the Americas.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

This, sadly, is also the story of traditional TV writ large—kept afloat by football.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

All the sudden Jimmy Blassingame’s face popped out of the hole that had the fancy three writ underneath it, the last hole on the right in the top row.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

She wrote to Burnham: "The Conservatives are happy to work with you and other parties on reforming social care. But we will only support a solution that abides by two core principles."

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

It seemed like a sci-fi plotline just seven months ago, when I wrote about some Stanford researchers who were experimenting with hacking bots.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Hundreds of kilometres away, the new Valencia fire was proving "very intense", Pilar Bernabe, the central government delegate to Valencia wrote on X.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

“We are grateful,” she wrote in an email, “for this partnership and the positive impact it has had.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

I always wrote back the same day, to some address in London.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

It’s written in a broad way that could entangle Congress in other aspects of city governance, which probably isn’t a good use of lawmakers’ time.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

While Kennedy has refrained from commenting on the current court or President Trump, he has written a memoir that tells his life story and explains the reasoning behind the major decisions of his era.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

"Every person who was brought in was assigned a number, which was written on their forehead," said Saif Hamza, who was released after questioning.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

Another piece, this one written by two Gen-Z women, posits that Holden himself is “the ultimate performative male.”

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

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

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

“They saw the writing on the wall,” Bonta said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

"I will say," Gavin adds, "one random tip is writing in motion - walking, driving, rollerblading, anything like that."

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Bestselling author and famed election and sports projection-model creator Nate Silver reposted the poll on Friday, writing: “This is what’s wrong with Britain.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

“I actually found it much easier than writing songs about myself. Having the permission to be silly and bratty was so freeing,” Hart said to The Quietus, discussing composing from Lestat’s perspective.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

Back home, I head to the treehouse with the writing notebook from Jonah and my phone so I can do today’s freewriting and then search for poems for class tonight.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison




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