written word
Example Sentences
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The written word compels you to think and a heightened conscience is one of the essential elements required to bring about change.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Even when we do take to the written word, it’s often to express opinions about the world, not to observe it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
The court order came in a case that had nothing to do with the written word.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
In the first, Hackman’s local sheriff, Little Bill Daggett, already cemented in our brains as vicious, reveals himself to be a shrewd mocker of the written word as well.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025
That is the power of the written word.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
