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[es-ey, es-ey, e-sey, e-sey] / ˈɛs eɪ, ˈɛs eɪ, ɛˈseɪ, ɛˈseɪ /




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Essay collections from the critics Helen Vendler and Jason Guriel embrace both tradition and experimentation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Bayes' rule takes its name from Thomas Bayes, who described his method for calculating conditional probabilities in "An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances."

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025

Essay Topic: An obsessive need to demean and diminish others is explained by some behavioral therapists as a sign of insecurity, weakness, or an unhappy childhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

Starting in 1795, it predates by eight years the publication of Luke Howard's the Essay on the Modification of Clouds.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

‘Humane’ here, and in the title of Locke’s Essay, means ‘human’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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