written 1 of 2

variants also writ or dialectal wrote
past participle of write

written

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adjective

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Recent Examples of written
Verb
This material is not to be reproduced or redistributed absent the written consent of Fairlead Strategies. Katie Stockton, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025 Co-written and co-directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, Kpop Demon Hunters follows Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong) and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo), three young-adult popstars in a group called Huntr/x, who are tasked to deal with supernatural threats because of their ancient demon slayer lineage. Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Years later, Redford toyed with making a sequel, to be written by Larry Gelbart. Stephen Galloway, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025 Scholars have written that early leaders came from the Muslim Brotherhood, archenemy of Egypt’s current military leadership, but that ties ended around 1990 under government pressure. Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for written
Recent Examples of Synonyms for written
Verb
  • Consumers were advised to check the lot code printed on the bottom strip of the pouch's back and to return the affected product to the retailer for a full refund.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • According to The New York Times, The Grapes of Wrath was the bestselling book of 1939, and some 430,000 copies of the novel had been printed by February 1940 (which must have put quite a strain on Viking’s printers at the time).
    Paul Slovak September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Baker’s versatility puts even more of an onus on Canales to get the calls communicated quickly so Young can get to the line and identify where Baker is.
    Joseph Person, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Other officers took positions in the garage’s other window and from the second floor of the house as Gutierrez communicated with Cook.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Staples, clips and other non-paper materials must be removed.
    Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In the financial world, assets can be divided into two types: paper assets, and non-paper assets.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
Verb
  • The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Nine Inch Nails composed the soundtrack.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Such incidents, in the past, would have had her run home, and write about them furiously in her journal, worried that forgetting them would erase the blessings corresponded to it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Surprisingly, that surge has corresponded with the team deciding to part ways with franchise slugger Rafael Devers, and several players have stepped up to fill his shoes.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In recent incidents, Google's Gemini CLI destroyed user files while attempting to reorganize them, and Replit's AI coding service deleted a production database despite explicit instructions not to modify code.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The supplemental essay prompts released for 2025–26 make this explicit.
    Liz Doe Stone, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Phoebe Eclair-Powell (The Road Trip) has penned the drama, her first series commission for television.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
  • James Reginato, a writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and the former features director for W magazine, penned the copy, and Anna Wintour contributed the foreword.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Harvard Business Review recently published an article I co-authored, Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce which argued that AI agents are no longer sidekicks.
    John Winsor, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Griffin co-authored a Wall Street Journal opinion piece arguing the importance of the Fed's political independence.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025

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