as in paper
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also writ
or dialectal wrote
1
as in printed
to compose and set down on paper the words of
a staunch supporter of the old school, he prefers to write all of his letters by hand
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2
as in communicated
to engage in an exchange of written messages
promise you'll write while you're away
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Recent Examples of written
Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2026
Under federal regulations, utilities must maintain written procedures for responding to gas leaks and other pipeline emergencies.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Mary Frances Ruskell is a freshman at Dartmouth College who has written about teen tech use and other topics for CNN.
—Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
Hunkered down inside Sam Evian and Hannah Cohen’s Flying Cloud Recordings studio, with no pre-written material, the Marías singer recorded her debut solo record, under the moniker Not For Radio.
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2026
Under federal regulations, utilities must maintain written procedures for responding to gas leaks and other pipeline emergencies.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
Verb
Much has been written about the inability to fall asleep.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Mary Frances Ruskell is a freshman at Dartmouth College who has written about teen tech use and other topics for CNN.
—Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for written
Adjective
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The company’s founders initially hoped to build an e-paper laptop, the Modos Paper Laptop, which was announced in January of 2022.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
8 Sep. 2025
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Staples, clips and other non-paper materials must be removed.—
Shirley MacFarland,
cleveland,
26 Aug. 2022
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Backlist In a sense, the backlist has existed for almost as long as there has been a printing press, since at its most fundamental level, the backlist consists of those titles for which the publisher still has copies in stock for a considerable amount of time after they were first printed.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
24 Apr. 2026
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For decades, the German automotive industry [and others] basically printed money in China.—
Jamie Lincoln Kitman,
Rolling Stone,
24 Apr. 2026
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Throughout the conflict, objectives have been poorly defined and inconsistently communicated.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
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The biggest success was seeing how well the system communicated across different tasks.—
David Szondy
April 25,
New Atlas,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Some House Republicans had tried to insert explicit language for the project in a spending bill earlier in the year regarding immigration operations.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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Wassim Nasr, a Sahel specialist and senior research fellow at the Soufan Center security think tank, said that the coordination between the two groups, as well as the explicit call for the Russian military to leave, is new.—
Wilson Mcmakin,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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The Balcony is textbook Manet—grand in ambition, ingeniously composed, visually charismatic, and socially unfathomable.—
Susan Tallman,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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The federation says the incident prompted internal change, noting that 50% percent of its board of directors is now composed of women, who are also in several top managerial positions.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2026
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McMahon corresponded with his professors.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Two greats of 17th-century math, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, corresponded about the problem in a famous series of letters.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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His sister, Skylar Smith, penned a sweet note to her brother.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
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Patrick Kang and Michael Levin penned the spec script with the most recent draft by Jen Statsky (Hacks) and Travis Helwig.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2026
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The research was co-authored by Kim Garam and Im So-Jeong, and a domestic patent application for the nano-tin interlayer technology has been filed in Korea.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Apr. 2026
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Norville has also authored knitting and crochet pattern books, as well as two children’s books.—
Francesca Gariano,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Written.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/written. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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