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variants also writ or dialectal wrote
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as in printed
to compose and set down on paper the words of a staunch supporter of the old school, he prefers to write all of his letters by hand
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as in communicated
to engage in an exchange of written messages promise you'll write while you're away
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Recent Examples of written
Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2026 Under federal regulations, utilities must maintain written procedures for responding to gas leaks and other pipeline emergencies. —Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026 Mary Frances Ruskell is a freshman at Dartmouth College who has written about teen tech use and other topics for CNN. —Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for written
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Hunkered down inside Sam Evian and Hannah Cohen’s Flying Cloud Recordings studio, with no pre-written material, the Marías singer recorded her debut solo record, under the moniker Not For Radio. —Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2026 Under federal regulations, utilities must maintain written procedures for responding to gas leaks and other pipeline emergencies. —Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
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Much has been written about the inability to fall asleep. —Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026 Mary Frances Ruskell is a freshman at Dartmouth College who has written about teen tech use and other topics for CNN. —Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for written
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The company’s founders initially hoped to build an e-paper laptop, the Modos Paper Laptop, which was announced in January of 2022.— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2025
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Staples, clips and other non-paper materials must be removed.— Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
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Backlist In a sense, the backlist has existed for almost as long as there has been a printing press, since at its most fundamental level, the backlist consists of those titles for which the publisher still has copies in stock for a considerable amount of time after they were first printed.— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
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For decades, the German automotive industry [and others] basically printed money in China.— Jamie Lincoln Kitman, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026
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Throughout the conflict, objectives have been poorly defined and inconsistently communicated.— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
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The biggest success was seeing how well the system communicated across different tasks.— David Szondy April 25, New Atlas, 25 Apr. 2026
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Could a traffic code provide explicit limits for every possible set of road conditions?— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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In many cases, Friedman said, authors assume they are not supposed to discuss their deals, even when there is no explicit restriction.— Josh Rivera, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
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The Balcony is textbook Manet—grand in ambition, ingeniously composed, visually charismatic, and socially unfathomable.— Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
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The federation says the incident prompted internal change, noting that 50% percent of its board of directors is now composed of women, who are also in several top managerial positions.— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
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McMahon corresponded with his professors.— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Two greats of 17th-century math, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, corresponded about the problem in a famous series of letters.— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
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An Open Letter From the Mascot Himself Ahead of his first home playoff game on April 22, Gritty penned an open letter to fans that showed a surprisingly sincere side beneath all the chaos.— Ryan Brennan April 23, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
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Ahead of his first home playoff game on April 22, Gritty penned an open letter to fans that was somehow both absurd and genuinely touching.— Ryan Brennan April 23, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
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Dugard was JSerra’s cross country head coach for several years and has co-authored many historical books with political commentator Bill O’Reilly.— Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
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Mintzer co-authored the 2022 book Conversations with Dean Tavoularis.— Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
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