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




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Essay prompts often reflect the political moment, college consultants and former admissions officers say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 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

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

This was in an 18th-century book titled An Essay on the Alphabets of the Unknown Letters That are Found in the Most Ancient Coins and Monuments of Spain.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2023

He shoves the laptop back at me, pointing at the title I typed at the top: “Teen Voices Personal Essay Contest Submission.”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison




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