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essay

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




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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

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued his AI PR campaign on Monday with a 6,500-word essay promising open models and a fund to invest in the communities where Meta hosts data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 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

"Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it," Zuckerberg said in his essay.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Enough energy and potential for us to develop them into a short story, a personal essay, or a poem for our final project.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Sara MacKenzie, director of admissions at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has seen essays that say “generated by ChatGPT” at the bottom on rare occasions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

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

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

In two essays published shortly before his Makerfield campaign, Haigh set out a vision for a radical reshaping of the British state.

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

We must turn to the longest and most philosophical of Montaigne’s essays, ‘An Apology for Raymond Sebond’, first published in 1580.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

David Tennant, then BBC's "Doctor Who," essayed the role in 2008 to great acclaim; Jude Law did it a year later to rather less.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2015

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

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

All eyes would otherwise be on Antony Sher, who is essaying this most daunting of tragic roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Barbican directed by Gregory Doran.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2016

They heard as they approached the church the music of the hymn, "How softly they rest"; at a considerable distance bugles were essaying gladder tones.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul




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