WROTE DOWN Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

wrote down

verb

past tense of write down

as in reduced

to diminish the price or value of a company forced to write down its assets

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as in recorded

to make a written note of write down what you remember about that day

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Recent Examples of wrote down Every home seems to have a list that nobody actually wrote down. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026 Recently, Hobert wrote down one of her goals 40 times in a notebook. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 Older automation follows rules someone wrote down in advance. — Shaz Khan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 In early 2019, Philadelphia was one of six brands the company wrote down as the value of its intangible assets fell. — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026 The Mariners essentially wrote down the rest of Ray’s five-year, $115 million contract while taking on the dead money owed to declining outfielder Mitch Haniger and injured right-hander Anthony DeSclafani. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 31 July 2026 Blanche said $130; Pearlman wrote down the correct figure, $85. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 July 2026 Why not eat the good feta, get that deli sandwich, try that beef stew recipe your grandmother wrote down for you by hand? — Grace Reilly, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026 But during that meeting, Frank Drake apparently wrote down the Drake equation for the first time, and the purpose of it was really to organize the meeting. — Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2026

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Taps won't go dry, experts say, in part because Arizona has already reduced its water use over the years.

— Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
But for Deakins, the work is too dependent on the circumstances of a story, and the people telling it, to be reduced to any one method.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of reduced

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The expansive feeling also comes from the way the duo wrote and recorded these tracks.

— Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
For Burned, Ounsworth recorded in his home studio, produced the album with frequent collaborator Nick Krill and enlisted Dave and Mike Fridmann to mix.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of recorded

Verb

In three appearances for the Texans in 2026, Fisher logged 38 special-teams snaps but did not appear on defense.

— Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Long-term oversold levels were logged by the monthly stochastics ahead of the June low, which may have marked the end of SHW's cyclical downtrend.

— Katie Stockton, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of logged

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That process can turn a market everyone else already wrote off into the one that still has return sitting in it.

— Ken Lundin, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
The Department of Watershed Management wrote off nearly $62 million in water and sewer accounts since 2023, which the audit team noted was an improvement from the years prior.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of wrote off

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Musk owns about 45% of SpaceX but controls roughly 82% of its voting power, Fortune reported.

— Heather Occhino, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Boeing reported 1,555 orders from more than 30 customers, representing over 30 percent of the program’s outstanding orders.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of reported

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The conversations are already recorded and transcribed, so the more durable approach is to read the record instead of relying on memory.

— Snehal Nimje, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Liberated from the genome, the sequence in the RNA copy is then reverse-transcribed into DNA at a different location.

— Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of transcribed

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Earlier, Rafael Jodar won after being a set down for third straight match and also reached the quarterfinals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
The column began with Google’s Sundar Pichai, who set down a fluid stroke, embellished with two horizontal lines, two dots and a dash.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

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