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While Block is in the fourth grade, after his family moves from Indiana to Texas, his mother withdraws him from school, convinced that a traditional academic environment will stifle his budding writerly gifts.—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026 Twenty-eight-year-old Caroline Lash blasts into town with writerly ambitions and falls in with a bohemian kayaker and his hometown crew, including an ex-girlfriend who’s pregnant with his baby.—Hamilton Cain, Time, 22 Dec. 2025 To my writerly cheer, there was even a young editor from Sydney.—Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025 Hot on his heels and relieved that the nor’easter had subsided, a decidedly writerly crowd flooded in.—Daniel Paik, Air Mail, 18 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for writerly