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 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 Ask who reviewed the first decision, the human one, made under deadline pressure with assumptions nobody wrote down, and the answer, in most organizations, is no one. — Beth Miller, Forbes.com, 10 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 With dark splotchy ink, the Secretary of the Senate drew large Xs through four amendments, slashed through several lines and furiously wrote down edits in the margins. — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 18 June 2026 Japan’s biggest life insurer wrote down ¥70 billion ($440 million) in the year ended March 31, a charge that a company spokesperson said was its first since the Bank of Japan shifted its policy to raising interest rates in March 2024. — Nao Sano, Bloomberg, 26 May 2026

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In fact, a 2025 study found that 28 percent of people with telogen effluvium had reduced ferritin levels, while no one in the control group had a deficiency.

— Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
By 2020, however, it had been reduced to a century-and-a-half-old ruin running a mile along the River Lee and in the midst of condo conversion.

— Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2026

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The shooting is the latest in a series of mass killings in South Africa, where police recorded 5,427 homicides during a recent three-month period.

— Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
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

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The estate sale runs now through September 27 and includes select bath and body products, pantry staples, and limited-edition goods—some of which are marked down by as much as 60%.

— Mina Dragani, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2026
Regularly $879, it is marked down to $729 during the sale, coming to $679 after applying AUSOMNA.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Sep. 2026

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But while the market logged a winning day on almost all fronts, an alarming trend not seen since 1999 was happening under the surface, CNBC's Sean Conlon writes.

— CJ Haddad, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Then check whether the professional development hours logged for special education, ESL and CTE staff actually matched what those teachers teach.

— Kellie Lauth, Forbes.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of logged

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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
Some investors wrote off the growing chorus of concern around AI, saying the doomsday talk is a political tactic to encourage government regulation.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of wrote off

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Personality change is the number one sign reported by families, Nowinski says.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
In June, The Times of London reported that private schools throughout the UK have lost 30,000 pupils since January 2025, and about 100 independent schools have closed entirely.

— Ashley Baker, Vanity Fair, 22 Sep. 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

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