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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

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The men talked about who would assault the woman beforehand, took photos and recorded the assault, which was also seen on a security system feed at the home in Sullivan's Island, an affluent suburb of Charleston, state agents said.

— MEG KINNARD, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
Wiggins recorded 19 points on 8-of-15 shooting from the field and 1-of-5 shooting on threes, six rebounds, one assist, one steal and one block in 22 minutes.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

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The giants of the late 1990s, including Qualcomm, Oracle, and Cisco, logged earnings on par with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft today.

— RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
The centers logged 862 exposures to retatrutide in the three months ending in September, up from 460 in the three months prior and 249 in the first three months of 2026.

— Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

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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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Executives from ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and TotalEnergies abandoned the event, the FT reported, due to the potential danger.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported two injuries, including a 14-year-old boy wounded in the upper thigh by Israeli gunfire.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 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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