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write

[rahyt] / raɪt /


VERB
to use a computer language, program
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While at Schlumberger, he worked for four years at an oilfield in Oman, where he had to write a daily summary of operations that was read by many colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

She recently turned down a nonfiction writer whose work she was excited about after they admitted to using AI frequently—not to write, they claimed, but to get inspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

"I never seem to write in the moment I'm going through it," Jacques says.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Diagnosed with autism, Arday had said he was non-verbal until age 11 and only learnt to read and write at 18, before becoming Cambridge's professor of sociology of education at 37.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

Maybe that’s what I should write in my journal.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

‘Yes, his contributions to entertainment will be long remembered and enjoyed, but his gifts to children will likely have no end,’ writes an L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Investors must learn to live with uncertainty about any supplies from the Gulf even if an agreement on the strait eventually appears, Christopher Smart writes.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

“Early punctuation focused on the contours of the sentence, giving us the comma, colon, and period,” Ms. Hazrat writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

"It is surprising that the discourse from many developing AI is so filled with doom," he writes.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

“We are in need of a true friend,” she writes.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Reform MP Lee Anderson moved the writ in the Commons on Thursday morning, meaning there will be a likely by-election date of Thursday, 13 August, though this has yet to be confirmed.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 3, 2026

As consumption of wine and spirits writ large has been in steady decline, sparkling wine has maintained, well, its sparkle—outperforming other categories with carbonated verve.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Well, here ’tis—tell ’er not to blieve mor’n half of what is writ in it.”

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

"My body no longer felt like my own," Panettiere wrote.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

In a story published today, I wrote about how companies would tweak their financial reporting if the Securities and Exchange Commission gives them an option to report earnings on a semiannual basis.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

A talented songwriter, Cecil wrote tracks for Patti Labelle, the Four Tops and the O’Jays.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Unlike the British, from whom the America’s founders adapted impeachment, the Framers wrote a definition of impeachable conduct into the Constitution—“treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

“Okay,” Katherine said after a pause, and wrote it down.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

You also have another series, called The Best of AI: Animation, that calls its entries “human in spirit” and proclaims that “another cinematic language is being written right now.”

From Slate Aug. 16, 2026

“The badly written letter of Andrés López Beltrán doesn’t transmit indignation,” wrote Denise Dresser, a columnist and frequentSheinbaum administration critic.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The words, “deny,” “delay,” and “depose” were written on the side of some of the shell casings found at the scene, according to a complaint.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

By keeping the action and themes largely Earthbound and removing the interstellar glamour associated with flying supes and suits, “Lanterns” reignites our consideration of a superhero long written off in the live-action realm.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

I don’t know what to say, but I’ve written and revised a thousand words that prove how much I care about Jonah.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed, and the author has denied the allegations, publicly saying she does not believe that generative AI belongs in the writing process.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Beijing is pushing artificial intelligence deep into the economy while writing rules around it.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

When everyone is writing about an outbreak of a disease, no matter how isolated, it can feel more pervasive and widespread than it actually is.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

But Trump’s latest posts appear less interested in interrogating Washington than in imagining him as a collaborator — writing, riding and offering design tips to his 21st-century successor.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

Before long, the youngest Fox sister was writing to Elisha like a brother.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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