wrote down

past tense of write down

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wrote down That is where the risk shows up, when someone is let go for missing a goal nobody wrote down. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrote down
Verb
  • The combination also reduced the hazard of cancer spreading to distant sites or death by 38%.
    — Mike McRae October 25, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In Spain, modern farming methods have reduced the practice of transhumance to a small group of farmers that keep the tradition alive not just for its environmental benefits but also for its cultural value.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Whatever your travel style, there’s a good chance your next favorite pair is marked down.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Some of our favorite models remain marked down, but probably not for much longer.
    — Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Investigators were seen collecting shell casings and bullet fragments from the scene, and numerous evidence markers were set down.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • 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

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“Wrote down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrote%20down. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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