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  • past participle of write.
  • past tense form of write.
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writ

[rit] / rɪt /


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Vacations to a Disney park were never cheap but now, in a reflection of American culture writ large, there are ever more-expensive tiers to pay to get into.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

“Tech writ large is now” 40% of global equity value, Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, said in a note emailed Tuesday.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

And there’s chemo, general Blitzkrieg bombing, destroy your body’s ability to produce cells at all, or a writ small version of chemo, which is targeted clinical therapies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Someone had took a pen or something and had writ on all five of them, but it was writ in a code so I couldn’t understand what they meant.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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