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wrote

American  
[roht] / roʊt /

verb

  1. a simple past tense of write.

wrote British  
/ rəʊt /

verb

  1. the past tense of write

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Appeared in the December 31, 2025, print edition as 'Granddaughter of JFK Wrote of Leukemia Fight'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

If you went out and said you’re going to run a commercial during Murder, She Wrote, nobody would care.”

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2025

Wrote one angry user in a post to X.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2024

It would kill the Who Really Wrote Shakespeare business, but there’d be so much more to parse.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024

“Genie, she gave me her phone number, man. Wrote it on a paper towel and told me not to lose it, but it don’t matter if I lose it, because I already memorized it.”

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

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