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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of early web titan Netscape, perhaps started this trend in 2023 with a 5,000-word essay he called "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", which argued innovation was the way to solve life's problems.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

In mid-July, Hassabis published an essay on X arguing that the U.S. should create an industry-funded “Standards Body” to help assess the safety of AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Not only does this grant Bonta VIP access to the moral highground, it all but negates Ellison’s recent New York Times guest essay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

In June, as I was drafting this essay, we experienced another pregnancy loss, this time a rare and dangerous type of ectopic pregnancy.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

And then you showed him an essay, which—no offense—is a really weird thing to do, and the essay basically blamed him for making you sad.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The justices have been writing essays about the problem for a decade while the seizures continue.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Wang, 56, who became a delivery rider around 2019, gained traction on social media for his poems and essays.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Even if you did not like the political observations of some of those magazines, essays, critiques, poetry or whatever was in ther, these are feelings from the people, and they’re protected under the First Amendment.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Stacks of books, tables littered with essays and commentaries, piles of Jewish magazines—these Orthodox homes form one of the few demographics where the printed word still thrives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

“We’ll see this afternoon,” she said, and she turned back to a pile of essays on her desk, spreading a red plague over them with her pen.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

The movie also gives a funny account of the composer-guitarist Pat Metheny’s enraged accusations of “musical necrophilia” after Kenny G essayed a virtual duet with Louis Armstrong.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

It had come to her knowledge that you and I were together in London—that you were once more essaying to play a part in civilised and great affairs.

From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim