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write

[rahyt] / raɪt /


VERB
to use a computer language, program
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“The change appears to be a targeted A/B test: We see no change to Basic pricing, monthly Grow or Advanced plans, or Shopify Plus plans,” they write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Will Hurzeler leave Brighton if another club comes for him, or stay and attempt to write his name in club folklore by qualifying for the Champions League?

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

You say that you are currently earning “around that limit,” and you also write that you make a good living.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Credible elections are an important element of the commitment that President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority made to reform,” they write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“After Mrs. Kuen came and your ba decided you had to get married, I told him to write to Auntie Matchmaker.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

It writes that the "ambitious data centre plans are running into reality", reporting that "some 47 big projects have been delayed, blocked or withdrawn this year – at a 'conservative estimate'."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

He writes that one million young people are not in education, employment or training, known as "Neets", partly blaming a welfare system that does not provide "support, skills, or help getting a job".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

When someone writes a will, they typically have an idyllic vision of leaving behind something that will provide joy for generations of heirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Carbon dioxide and water meet in the chloroplasts, where solar energy breaks down their molecules and reassembles them into the sugar glucose plus “a side order of oxygen,” the author writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mr. Fabian writes 3/10 equals point three hundred on the board.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

“We always think about it as sort of two audiences—as folks in the room, but it’s also the internet writ large,” Doumet said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

He promised that we would soon have a satire acted upon the rebels, writ by the notorious wit Major-General Burgoyne, with curtain-tunes and airs by this same excellent sapper to please the crowd.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Our critic wrote that the film “has a gradually mounting force in its depiction of class differences and a patriarch burdened by an agonizing sense of failure.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

That bled into the 20 or so other pieces Watts wrote, which also appear in dozens of international spin-offs.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

That 2019 opinion, which Kagan herself wrote, was about how much courts should defer to an expert federal agency’s interpretation of its own regulations.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

As Tomika Anderson wrote in Essence recently, “I want to raise a son who understands that his responsibility to another human being doesn’t end with, ‘I didn’t do it.'”

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Grandpa grinned and said, “That’s one of those extra irons I was telling you about. I wrote a letter to those circus people and got an answer from the animal trainer.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

But all those interactions were tightly scripted, based on rules and storylines written in advance by game developers.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"It's a brilliantly written human story about power, control, ambition and greed that might be the most urgently relevant film of our time," Neglia said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

They are written by the same officials, the commentary cross-references specific guidelines, and both the commentary and guidelines are reviewed after years of data collection on sentencing patterns across the judiciary.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

The founder of a newsletter and registered investment advisor firm shares the do’s and don’ts of effective written communication for financial advisers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I study her and her crisp no-nonsense outfit, not able to hide the curiosity that I know is written all over my face.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The Observer explores what it is calling the "childhood lottery", writing that a child in Blackpool is 27 times more likely to miss school than one in Lambeth.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The job typically requires a mix of both grunt work—sitting in meetings and writing briefs—along with higher-level strategy tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

"And then other things that we've thought about writing scripts about and never gotten around. So we don't know yet."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

I remember writing about him being on “Saturday Night Live” and people shrugging it off, like, “Oh, it’s not that big of a deal.”

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

I think of Jonah winning the creative writing prize, and that rejection from the writing intensive, and Dad’s response when he read my story in the literary magazine.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison


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