write
verb (used with object)
to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe.
writes
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present tense formof write (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“I don’t believe the answer lies in whether humans think it looks good or bad,” Yoshida writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“I went in with some friends on a summer share in Cape Cod. It was what my friends were doing, and that was enough for me,” he writes.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
But even if Bernays was sanguine about the use of propaganda, his own enthusiasm points at its dangers: Those who manipulate “this unseen mechanism of society,” he writes, will become an “invisible government.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
"What if I have completely overestimated my capabilities? What if my story ends up being a cautionary tale like Icarus about flying too close to the sun?" he writes in the book.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“I dream big,” he writes to Stanley Stein at Carville.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
