WRITTEN UP Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

written up

verb

past participle of write up

as in written

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Macedo wrote a letter to Steve Kawa, the chair of the authority’s board, ahead of the meeting saying that Choudri had misused taxpayer money and abused public trust.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Aaron wrote both of them, so they’re obviously attached in that way.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of written

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Hey, the boss needs a favor In a November 2025 Reddit post, one person described buying $800 in Target gift cards on their second day at a new job after receiving an email impersonating their boss.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
OpenAI’s report on influence campaigns mounted using its technology also described a cluster of ChatGPT accounts in Russia that were banned after they were used to operate what appeared to be a fake think tank in Latin America.

— Miriam Waldvogel, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026

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And while The Atlantic has published largely skeptical coverage of major AI companies and their products’ impact on society, Thompson’s tone, in his podcasts and LinkedIn posts, has been more optimistic.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
There was another surge in the 1990s, due largely to the effort of Connecticut native Jim Beloff, who published a series of popular ukulele songbooks and also helped design sleek new ukulele models called The Fluke and The Flea.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

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In the days since, more than a dozen Democrats and a handful of Republicans have spoken up to further criticize the ads.

— Ali Swenson, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
Dropkick Murphys‘ frontman Ken Casey has spoken up about Macklemore being forced off Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour after the rapper made onstage comments in support of Palestinians and criticized Israel’s war in Gaza.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of spoken up

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Lawmakers, current and former Cornell students, actors and other public figures are among those who have spoken out.

— Jason Carroll, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Martine Singer has spoken out nine months after the deaths of her sister Michele and brother-in-law Rob Reiner.

— Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2026

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Busch died in May from hemorrhagic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis, according to the former NASCAR star’s death certificate.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
The message, disseminated not just within Israel but among the diaspora, is that one Israeli, alive or dead, is worth untold numbers of Arabs.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of disseminated

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During the season, a weekly off day would also allow for the creation of a standalone Monday night game broadcast nationally, akin to Sunday Night Baseball.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
The need to broadcast the comedian’s material becomes larger than what the artist alone can deliver.

— Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of broadcast

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