essay
Example Sentences
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Scott’s website, yieldgiving.com, periodically updates with essays by Scott but says the team doesn’t engage with media so attention can focus on the nonprofits.
Singapore is managed in a way that "excludes accident and randomness", he wrote in Singapore Songlines, his seminal essay on the city's rapid makeover.
From BBC
In his 2021 essay about the AI algorithm capable of sending people to jail, he put his finger on the factor that makes the very term “artificial intelligence” a misnomer.
From Los Angeles Times
I asked Claude to write a parody of a college essay comparing Joyce and Homer and it included 47 instances of hedging.
All the extra hours studying, the extra time in the simulation rooms, the extra books and essays I’d read on every obscure historical event known to man didn’t matter.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.