writing up

Definition of writing upnext
present participle of write up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for writing up
Verb
  • An 81-year-old Coconut Grove man and his wife are speaking out for the first time after being struck from behind earlier this month by a teenager riding an electric dirt bike.
    Peter D'Oench, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Nelson Peltz is speaking out about his son-in-law Brooklyn Beckham's explosive allegations against his parents for the first time.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The good news is, like your friend, more people are speaking up about it than in the past.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Ron Funches has been speaking up.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Aftermath of a jail death Within three hours of Jamall Brown’s death, an internal-affairs sergeant was writing a different version of what had happened.
    Christopher Damien, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
  • In other words, people now in their 70s are writing to me about an issue that affected their parents.
    Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Savannah Guthrie opened the family’s plea by thanking supporters for their prayers before describing her mother as the heart of their family and making a direct appeal for contact, stressing Nancy Guthrie’s fragile health and urgent need for medication.
    Adam Sabes , Michael Ruiz , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Kurkdjian translated that same idea into scent, describing the partnership as both rare and intuitive.
    Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In what's become an annual rite in Rhode Island, consumers are once again sounding off about the state's high winter utility costs.
    Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 16 Jan. 2026
  • There were clearly plenty of struggles, leading to the Buccaneers' signal caller sounding off on the issues.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In practice, journalists typically avoid publishing home addresses or identifying victims of domestic abuse.
    Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • By mid-January, governments around the world were blocking the tool, safety teams were issuing damage-control statements, and researchers were publishing evidence that the scale of harm was far larger than anyone had publicly acknowledged.
    The AI Insider, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The legislation would allow individuals whose likeness has been used by AI to generate pornographic photos and videos without their consent to sue those responsible for generating or disseminating the content for upward of $150,000.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 22 Jan. 2026
  • He was charged during a Brooklyn Criminal Court arraignment with disseminating indecent material to minors, official misconduct by a public servant, and endangering the welfare of a child.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Writing up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writing%20up. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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