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And in 2014, he penned a Bloomberg Businessweek essay coming out as gay, becoming the first Fortune 500 CEO to do so.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

In his essay, Gates said he would talk to lawmakers about this in Washington: “You have a chance to act now, before unemployment rises sharply, communities are hurting and public trust has eroded.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Curlee, who has since resigned from the Central Intelligence Agency after 20 years of service, recently shared her experience in a first-person essay published by The Atlantic magazine.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

It’s a tender, naked and amusing personal essay, grounded in the now while looking both backward and forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

They were from Henry David Thoreau’s famous essay, “Civil Disobedience,” written in 1849.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Known as “direct admissions,” this expedited process is free and omits required essays, questions about extracurriculars and mandated standardized tests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

She is working on a book of essays about multiculturalism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Wang, 56, who became a delivery rider around 2019, gained traction on social media for his poems and essays.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

“We’ll see this afternoon,” she said, and she turned back to a pile of essays on her desk, spreading a red plague over them with her pen.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

To attempt to prepare your work by borrowing your neighbour's book is like essaying to live on charity.

From For the School Colours by Angela Brazil