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It cited a 2023 diversity open house, where it alleged staff told applicants they could reveal their race in answers to essay questions or in a diversity statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Days later, Amodei published a lengthy essay arguing that AI's mounting risks warranted a slowdown.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

He had started leaning on Google’s AI-assisted search for other classes, like when he needed to label the parts of a volcano or write an essay about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

So when The Cut writer Kathleen Walsh published an essay recently about feeling like she should be able to cold call her friends, it resonated with me deeply.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

If my essay wins, then the new Mars rover that launches next year will be called Persistence!

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

"When you realize the impact the work will have, people can't help but weigh in," Diamos says -- which helps explain Amodei's many sprawling essays.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"None of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement," Cornell said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

I have seen similar essays throughout my eight decades of life, and the subject frustrates me — though perhaps not for the reason you might suspect.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

He wrote essays and conducted oral interviews with UFW greats such as Hartmire and Gilbert Padilla who were essential to the union’s success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

There were no more recommendations to collect, essays to write, or people to meet.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

Before the Schubert, Vogt and the Tetzlaffs had essayed the three Brahms trios, as well as two by Dvorak; with Christian alone, there were accounts of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 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

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

She could not but anticipate much from that genius which was just essaying to unfold itself in the sun.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith