How to Use essay in a Sentence
- The book is a collection of his previously unpublished essays on a variety of topics.
- Your assignment is to write a 500-word essay on one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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The essay is long, but worth your time.
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Billy Perrigo,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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A lot has changed since my last essay.
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Daria Kolomiec,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
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Here’s the first of these guest essays.
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Lisa Morgan,
AJC.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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Here’s the third of these guest essays.
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Verdaillia Turner,
AJC.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Was the essay just a chapter in the book?
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Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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That’s explored in the back half of the essay.
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Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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The first essay anybody writes is for school.
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Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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This is the fourth and final guest essay.
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Staci Fox,
AJC.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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John keeps her essays in a folder.
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Allegra Goodman,
New Yorker,
4 Jan. 2026
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With essays, there’s a kind of shorthand to it.
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Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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Well, what about, was there a response to the essay at the time?
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Quanta Magazine,
1 Feb. 2024
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This more recent essay, though, is less cheery.
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Billy Perrigo,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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Gay served as a long time essays editor for the site.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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Don’t expect to take a test or write an essay, either.
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Olivia Wakim,
AJC.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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But that will take another essay to lay out.
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Peter Leyden,
Big Think,
7 Oct. 2025
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No essay on Gawain and his Green Knight.
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Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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What compelled you to write this memoir in essays?
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Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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Pick up favorite rereads; a tried-and-true book or essay or story.
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Kristen Arnett,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
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Allen wrote an essay about the movie star after her death at age 79.
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Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Those essays don’t write themselves.
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Bruce Headlam,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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This essay is not an argument against speed.
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Big Think,
1 May 2026
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For Layden’s full essay, read here.
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Steve Kornacki,
NBC news,
1 May 2026
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Take-home essays could turn into entire books.
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Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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The other is a small research essay.
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Matt Boedy,
AJC.com,
18 May 2026
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Those moments taught me more about my own writing process than any closed-book or in-class essay.
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Maximilian Milovidov,
NPR,
6 Mar. 2026
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The essay is ostensibly about how to raise a child well.
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Afdhel Aziz,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Eight more essays were published that summer.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 May 2026
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The strongest essays reveal how a student thinks and sees the world.
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Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
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Playboy's spring issue, including Hale's full photo shoot and essay, hits newsstands in April.
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Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Mar. 2026
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The physical editions will also come with a 125-page liner notes essay from Sean Wilentz.
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Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
17 Sep. 2025
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Getting berated by your mother into writing a school admissions essay about her former cutting habit?
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Emma Specter,
Vogue,
18 Nov. 2025
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That reality will be seen at Ventana Sur, as directors themselves essay genre mixes.
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John Hopewell,
Variety,
1 Dec. 2025
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In the process, Tarr essayed an arresting tone poem about spiritual isolation that enraptured viewers.
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Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
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In an as-told-to essay for the Wall Street Journal, the H Is for Hawk actress spoke about her love of historical dramas and homes.
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Marina Watts,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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The story is raw, layered, and powerful, with unforgettable characters which will be essayed by incredibly talented actors.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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In the film, Bajpayee plays the police officer while Jim Sarbh essays the role of the killer who goes by the fictional name Carl Bhojraj.
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Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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During the last 45 years or so, additional sketches for the finale have surfaced, and a number of musicologists and composers have essayed completions of the movement.
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Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Jan. 2026
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The four-man group plays and sings with equal verve whether essaying its own engaging songs or classics by Bill Monroe, The Carter Family and The Stanley Brothers.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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There is a secondary love affair being essayed here beyond the one with Robert Smith, and Rodrigo did a fairly effective job in pre-release commentary of explaining how, thematically, this would be a two-part album.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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Deverakonda essays the lead role along side Bhagyashri Bose, Satyadev, Bhoomi Shetty, Baburaj, and Manish Chaudhary.
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Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Given that some schools have a considerable number of supplemental essay prompts (Yale requires students to respond to a whopping eight questions, seven short-answer and one longer essay), students should dedicate ample time to brainstorming, drafting, and revising.
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Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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After netting a Golden Globe nomination for her film debut in 1978's Corvette Summer, Annie Potts joined the cast of Ghostbusters, played the ultimate Cool Girl record store clerk in Pretty in Pink (1986), and essayed her most iconic role as barbed single-mother Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women.
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Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
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