writes

VERB

put language down on paper

Synonyms

STRONGEST

address compose create draft note pen print record rewrite scrawl scribble sign tell

STRONG

author autograph chalk commit communicate copy correspond engross formulate ghost indite ink inscribe letter pencil reproduce scribe transcribe typewrite

WEAK

bang out comp dash off draw up drop a line drop a note jot down knock off knock out note down push a pencil put in writing scriven set down set forth take down turn out write down write up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

destroy ignore ruin

STRONG

keep stop

WEAK

read

Example Sentences

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writes

Start calling things what they are not and risks balloon, Aaron Klein writes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The famine, Jeanna Smialek writes, “would finally change Maria Edgeworth’s mind.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"It writes without fully severing the DNA, keeps recording relatively steadily, and writes everything in strict order, so we can record cell lineages at much higher resolution for a longer time."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

He lasted two days as a Sea Org recruiter, meaning, he writes, “contractually, I owe the Church of Scientology a billion years of labor minus two days.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Leonardo writes a little bit of everything in his notebooks—Latin verbs, bad jokes, grocery lists.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day