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wrote

American  
[roht] / roʊt /

verb

  1. a simple past tense of write.


wrote British  
/ rəʊt /

verb

  1. the past tense of write

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Such systems “may determine pay by what the firm knows about how much a nurse was willing to accept for a previous assignment,” the report’s authors wrote, locking them into lower pay bands over time.

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I had seen so many people do the first couple of scenes so I wrote an additional scene, us being trapped in the back of a van in Episode 2.

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“It was a central and safe place for everyone to retreat to whenever they need it,” the family wrote.

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When Gleick wrote his dissertation at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, he examined a range of climate scenarios and analyzed how rising temperatures would likely change the timing of runoff in Northern California.

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“L.A. County voters overwhelmingly approved Measure R in March 2020 to grant the Commission subpoena powers,” the Civilian Oversight Commission wrote in a statement.

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