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write

[rahyt] / raɪt /


VERB
to use a computer language, program
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President Trump and executives from Mesabi Metallics unveiled a plan to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa, the WSJ’s Bob Tita and Alex Leary write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Visitors write down their names, sometimes add an ID card number, and sign to say that nobody forced or enticed them to attend church.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

But there are also reasons not to write this company off.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Warmer seas help spawn Pacific hurricanes, which have already battered Hawai‘i this year. As I write this, rhyming storms named Polo and Nolo threaten to bring flooding to Hawai‘i and Mexico.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

“Great. Would you find her math book while I write a note?”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Federal Reserve may need to keep policy tighter for longer, ANZ Research writes in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

As the climatologist Jeffrey Shaman writes in the Times, El Niño offers governments a chance to prepare, whether by funding firefighters or creating warning systems for residents during heat waves.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

“You could have folded a picture of them, and the two halves would’ve matched,” Herzog writes.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Columnist Mirjam Swanson writes USC coach Lincoln Riley’s embarrassing lack of leadership cost the Trojans a potential win over Oregon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Someday I hope you will come to our lovely country,” she writes.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Even if successful, the lawsuit wouldn’t invalidate the tax writ large; instead, it seeks to block the city from taking any further actions on the tax warning notices it already sent out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The government injected billions into banks, insurance giant AIG and the automobile industry to prevent the collapse of individual companies that would have jeopardized the economy and the financial system writ large if they failed.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

It represents a leap in the evolution of Saar’s work — her smaller scale imaginings now writ large.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Reform has to ask for a writ to be issued to trigger a by-election process, which has to be approved by MPs.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

It had writ ’cross it in rough letters, Benjamin Alston, your Wilbur Place.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Researchers wrote in a paper published Monday that automating AI research could set off an “intelligence explosion.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“The infrastructure is being built ahead of the demand curve, and funding it sustainably will require adding approximately 1% to the annual global GDP growth rate,” they wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

"We hadn't met previously but instantly felt a bond, a camaraderie of shared history as ex-lead singers of two brilliant bands," Finn wrote on Monday.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

"The main concern for markets isn't that employment conditions could suddenly weaken. It's almost the opposite," wrote Fiona Cincotta at FOREX.com.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

I always wrote back the same day, to some address in London.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

This email was written by David Wainer, a writer for Heard on the Street, The Wall Street Journal’s home for financial analysis and commentary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Trusts are usually written in very conditional, flexible language to account for all future possible scenarios and last through several generations of trustees and beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

One can’t possibly grasp the closeness two people share until they’ve experienced firsthand the joy and indescribable pain that come with the kind of enmeshment written in fate’s codex.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Pushpa Sundar, who briefly served as a civil servant and has written extensively on development issues, says officers can face political pressure and transfers when they refuse to comply with demands.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Someone had written a letter for her, and Father Harte had read it to us.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Some churches in and around India's financial capital Mumbai have begun asking worshippers to give a declaration in writing - "I came here to pray of my own free will."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Another session focused on writing letters to outer space, an act influenced by the race to the moon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

"I am writing to inform the parties that Justice Alito has determined that he will not continue to participate in this case," the clerk said, without stating a reason.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

They use it to brainstorm ideas, find literature, improve writing, refine arguments and test competing hypotheses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“I’m taking a creative writing class at the library,” I explain.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison




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