WRITING UP Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

writing up

verb

present participle of write up

as in speaking out

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This changes the attention from the antisemitic conduct to the motives of the people speaking out.

— Kenneth L. Marcus, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
Hannah Einbinder is speaking out after being detained at a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on Thursday.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of speaking out

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But together with his mother, Alison, the 22-year-old has found a calling in speaking up for people with disabilities in Tallahassee.

— Justin Garcia, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
And there are so many more that have stayed silent because people out there have told them not to speak up, who have scared them into not speaking up.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of speaking up

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Earlier this year, César Alvarez spent far too much of their play The Potluck having their onstage avatar wiggle around on the hook of writing The Potluck.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
GPTZero’s authenticity suite, including AI and hallucination detection, plagiarism checking, and writing replay, has been added to Superhuman’s platform.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of writing

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Elaine Hendrix is sounding off about Tuesday’s shocking elimination on Dancing With the Stars season 35.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
Vocalization increases, with more bulls sounding off as the rut approaches; the peak is generally considered to be the last two weeks of September.

— Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of sounding off

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And Swarthmore College stopped publishing letter grades for first-semester students on transcripts in the 1970s.

— Dan Simmons, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026
Highlights Press, the book publishing program of Highlights for Children, is now a top-20 children’s publisher and routinely publishes activity books, craft books and learning workbooks.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of publishing

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This medical inertia partly reflects the time lag involved in disseminating findings.

— Paula Span, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
Officials said the girl, who turned 17 years old less than six weeks before the attack, helped by disseminating the livestream of the assault and releasing the manifesto the two teens had authored.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

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