WRITING UP Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

writing up

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present participle of write up

as in speaking out

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The activist speaking out against the bill is also calling for an outright ban on data centers.

— Dennis Valera, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
An American woman is speaking out after being rescued from a seaplane crash that was caught on camera near the Bahamas on Saturday.

— Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of speaking out

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City official calls removal ‘unnecessary escalation’ As the meeting continued, another attendee called Miller’s removal from the chambers disappointing and shameful to see someone who was speaking up thrown to the ground.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 18 Aug. 2026
Instead, Cuban seemed much more interested in speaking up for fellow entrepreneurs.

— Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of speaking up

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But Democrats, like Senator Richard Blumenthal, writing to Secretary Hegseth and Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, demanding answers about the conditions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Just three years ago, Katie Husher was writing software to control autonomous vehicles at Cruise in San Francisco.

— Laura Ness, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of writing

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Influencers like Paige Paul (née Lorenze) have been sounding off in Four Winds Craft Guild’s comments, trying to frame the argument as a feminist one.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 July 2026
His inconsistencies were glaring, sounding off alarm bells about whether Drury had made a miscalculation.

— Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of sounding off

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Textbooks Ken Miller, a professor emeritus of biology at Brown University, has been publishing one of the nation’s most popular biology textbooks for nearly 30 years.

— Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
The referrals were made prior to the watchdog publishing its findings this week.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of publishing

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The show's founder and presenter Mehdi Ahmadi said he was charged with disseminating false information and questioned on Sunday and Monday.

— August 18, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
No billion-dollar corporation changes or eliminates its operating policies without disseminating the replacement policy first.

— Joseph Landers, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of disseminating

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