- past tense form of write.
wrote
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"I wanted to show that the journalist who captures suffering for the world is himself living through that same tragedy behind the lens," wrote Hassouna, who remains in Gaza.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
"Yeah, I got famous on a song that I didn't write," she says now, "but there's more to what you bring to a song than whether you wrote the lyrics."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the book, Steinem wrote that one longer-term result of the article was “realizing that all women are Bunnies. After feminism arrived in my life, I stopped regretting that I had written the article.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Block the number Chris,” Jordan wrote in the group chat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
One of the websites I was looking at had a quote from a letter she wrote to her mentor.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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