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




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The spectacled Beijinger admitted he was nervous for the essay portion of the Chinese test.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

For school, Fuki writes an essay about her wish to be an orphan.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Mollen, ironically, knows the pattern: In her Substack essay, she recalls that her mother-in-law “fell apart” when she and Biggs announced their engagement.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

In an essay on his own website in January, Amodei suggested that training of AI systems with science-fiction narratives of AI rebellion could, for instance, end up causing real AIs to rebel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

A year later Farmer published an essay about his work in Haiti, “The Anthropology Within,”in a Harvard Medical School publication, and the anonymous donor suddenly surfaced.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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