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as in reduced
to diminish the price or value of
a company forced to write down its assets
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as in noted
to make a written note of
write down what you remember about that day
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Recent Examples of written down
They may not be written down, but everyone knows them.
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Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Stripped of tone and context, those words can come across very differently once they're written down.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Guests also had their names written down on name cards alongside drawings of cocktails and had the menu items on a sheet of paper, according to the guest.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
But in positive geometry, which is based on the type of space described by Roger Penrose’s twistor theory from 1967, just a simple set of terms can be written down, and calculated in a straightforward fashion, that yields a geometric object whose volume components can be calculated.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
Copeland and Summers go on to say that this verbal agreement was formalized and written down in 1981.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Since then, the Oracle of Omaha has written down billions on the stake, while 3G Capital quietly headed for the exit, leaving Berkshire as the mostly exposed, and bruised, shareholder.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
All3Media has written down the value of a number of its production houses, including Lime Pictures by £25M ($33M) following the reduction in weekly episodes of Hollyoaks.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Stripped of tone and context, those words can come across very differently once they're written down.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Guests also had their names written down on name cards alongside drawings of cocktails and had the menu items on a sheet of paper, according to the guest.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
But in positive geometry, which is based on the type of space described by Roger Penrose’s twistor theory from 1967, just a simple set of terms can be written down, and calculated in a straightforward fashion, that yields a geometric object whose volume components can be calculated.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
Copeland and Summers go on to say that this verbal agreement was formalized and written down in 1981.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Since then, the Oracle of Omaha has written down billions on the stake, while 3G Capital quietly headed for the exit, leaving Berkshire as the mostly exposed, and bruised, shareholder.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
All3Media has written down the value of a number of its production houses, including Lime Pictures by £25M ($33M) following the reduction in weekly episodes of Hollyoaks.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for written down
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Passenger travel time between Paris, Europe’s second-largest metropolitan area, and Milan, Europe’s third-largest metropolitan area, will be reduced to 4½ hours from 6½-7½ hours.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Nearly half the agency's staff has been reduced, including hundreds of FSA employees.—
Arthur Jones II,
ABC News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Researchers have previously noted an elevated but rare risk of myocarditis, or inflamed heart muscle, in young men in particular.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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The palace noted the volume includes a dramatized account of Smith's interactions with Pocahontas.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Billions in loans and investments have reached neighborhoods that might have been written off completely.—
Lenwood V. Long,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Dane’s character was written off the show at the end of Season 8, while Williams stayed on the show for 12 seasons.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
15 Sep. 2025
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Saturday marked Sporting’s ninth loss this season by exactly one goal.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
14 Sep. 2025
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For Seville, who no doubt had the best year of his career over the 2025 calendar season, the win marked the next step in his evolution as one of his country’s best.—
Cory Mull,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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As the swells grew and the troughs sunk deeper, an ominous feeling settled upon us.—
Martin Suarez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
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This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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In Middlesex League action, Kaylee Master recorded a hat trick, Sophia Setouhi added a pair and Gianna Venezia scored her first varsity goal as Watertown (5-0) blanked Woburn, 7-0, for its 102nd straight field hockey win.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
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For RWAs to function, every participant needs confidence that events are recorded in the right order.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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While sizes are already disappearing in the black floral print, the dress also comes in a forest green hue that is marked down to $149 from the usual $298 price.—
Anna Popp,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Sep. 2025
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Mall shoppers favored familiar names over an unknown Japanese brand that shunned logos, ignored trends, and rarely marked down prices.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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That’s according to the Financial Times, which reported that Beijing had ordered companies not to buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 600D, which was custom-made for the country.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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Anonymous tips forward to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center reported threatening posts from a Discord profile that referenced plans for a future massacre and contained pictures of guns.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Written down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/written%20down. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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