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In his most recent essay, Amodei reiterated cracking down on unauthorized distillation in countries, such as China, and on chip smuggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Allegedly, somewhere out there De Palma’s original three-hour cut exists, one that so impressed Ellroy that he devoted an entire essay to singing its praises called “The Hillikers.”
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” calling for an industrywide effort to slow AI development.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Recursive self-improvement was a major focus of an essay published Saturday by Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, which called for leading AI companies to slow the pace of development.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Mr. Mwila walked down the space that separated the girls and Ellis Carter from the boys, to hand out our second attempt at essay writing.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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In fact, Kim wrote essays under the pen name Su-wha, which translates to "conversation with trees".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Some recited Whanki's essays, while a local shaman performed a "healing ritual".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Berkeley is one of many school trying this gambit, which often involves mining admissions essays for race-related stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Next month, Counterpoint Press will posthumously release “Dispatches From Rural America,” a collection of 15 essays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
I read the New Testament, once quickly, then a second time more slowly, pausing to make notes, to cross-reference, and even to write short essays on doctrines like faith and sacrifice.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
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
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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
"Then it was no runaway?" said she, essaying a smile.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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