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So it wasn’t surprising that his damage control came quickly and at length in a Twitter essay the following morning.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2026

In that 1919 essay, Freud focuses on the doppelgänger, or “double,” noting how we twin with dolls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

It comes after three students were caught wearing or possessing smart glasses during institution-administered essay exams at universities in Seoul.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

In a bittersweet essay, Dolores’ daughter Juanita once recalled how her mother forgot to pick her up from junior high school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

I want this essay to have a satisfying conclusion.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Poetry like Rukeyser’s and others by Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden or the essays by James Baldwin that Alexander parses in the book, provide sustenance for the journey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

You came to Salon for the journalism, the dialogue, the essays, the criticism, the unexpected discoveries and the sense that there was a place on the internet where ideas mattered.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

The lavishly illustrated catalog, with wide-ranging, readable essays by Mr. Dalvit and his team, must be the definitive publication on the subject.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

In November, Feygin plans to host an event at the Wende Museum in Culver City, inviting other first-generation Eastern Europeans to share essays and poetry about their connections to bathing culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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

Devon Teuscher essayed the leading ballerina role with equal parts calm and strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 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

Milt essayed, “We can have it ready in ten days. We’ll deliver it during the day while your husband is at work.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

They were engaged round the fire, round the tables, anywhere; and Georgina had it all to herself, and played bars of music now and then, as if she were essaying different pieces.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood