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Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay revisits her decision to send her daughter to mostly low-income and Black public schools, ten years later.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

Earlier this month, Amodei wrote an essay welcomed by Altman and others calling an AI development slowdown in response to fears about the technology's threat to humanity.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Snarky fisking — responding to an article line-by-line — gave way to the quiz boom, which was consumed by the personal essay before the long decade of short-form video.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

That backdrop runs through the recent Foreign Affairs essay “The Emerging U.S.-China Détente” by Da Wei, the director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

In the summer of 1844, while Charles Darwin was writing his first essay on evolution, Galton left England to travel to Egypt and Sudan—the first of many trips he would take to Africa.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The department pointed to a question asking applicants to identify their race and essays about hardship and diversity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Some recited Whanki's essays, while a local shaman performed a "healing ritual".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Yale University Art Gallery highlights the photojournalist’s work—including his classic photo essays for Life magazine—ranging from his pictures of World War II to those of rural and industrial life in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Published by the editors of Life magazine, the volume included stunning photos and heartfelt essays documenting the terrorist attack and its aftermath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

In the second cast, Christine Shevchenko fell far short of Ms. Teuscher’s finesse, but she essayed the opening “Preghiera” movement with more of its requisite lilt and shimmer than Ms. Teuscher did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

That section essayed — at the very least — to disqualify from federal office the Civil War rebels and, prospectively, anyone who tried to do the same thing again.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2023

Meanwhile, dos Santos — with an army of around 100,000 troops, many with years of jungle combat experience — essayed a role as a regional power broker, starting with neighboring countries.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

James Earl Jones, who essayed the role numerous times to great acclaim, cannily used the spotlight to advance the cause of civil rights in America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

"You got to go, Ralph. You go away now-" He wagged his spear and essayed fierceness.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Two other Scandinavian greats, Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann, couldn’t resist essaying a part that passionately called out to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Here, Sinatra is clearly stretching the limits of what was possible for a popular singer—one can’t imagine any of his predecessors or contemporaries essaying a work as long and complex as this.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

The actress was a member of the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1972-75, essaying Lady Macbeth in 1972.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2020

Like all reflective objects though, the act of essaying has a twoness about it.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2020

Another is that I have been enabled to preserve a few staunch and trusty friends through the evolution of that rainy-weather costume which a few of my sex have joined me in essaying.

From Rosemary and Rue by Amber