write out

verb

wrote out; written out; writing out; writes out

transitive verb

: to write especially in a full and complete form

Examples of write out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Many people on social media speculated that the woman was reading the phonetic spellings of the names and didn't have the full names written out in their normal spellings. Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 May 2024 Biden tries humor on the campaign trail On Friday, checks of up to $250,000 each will be written out to the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee. Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024 How the character will be written out of the series has yet to be seen. Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024 That brings us to the current generation of AI systems which are good at solving certain types of mathematics problems written out in words. The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024 Telling a story set in a time before she was born and in an era that has been quietly written out of Indonesian history books proved a challenge. Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024 She was taken to the hospital, and, while intubated, answered authorities’ questions by writing out her answers. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024 So yes, those two being written out of the story of country music’s start is personal to Randall, an energy that drives her through her exploration of her own story. Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2024 Some 1,700 years ago, a scribe living at a monastery in Egypt wrote out two complete books of the Bible over a 40-year period. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of write out was in the 15th century

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“Write out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/write%20out. Accessed 18 May. 2024.

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