essay

Definitions

1. A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
2. essay; paper; nonfiction
3. A test, experiment; an assay.
   obsolete
4. test/testing, trial, experiment
5. An attempt.
   archaic
6. try, attempt, assay
7. A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.
8. rehearsal, practice, run-through, dry run
9. first-person singular present indicative of ensayar

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Examples

“In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View⟳ of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search⟳ for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call⟳ “the next big one.””

“My first essay at getting employment was fruitless; but after no small number⟳ of mortifying rebuffs from various parties to whom I applied for assistance, I was at last⟳ rewarded by a comparative success.”

“This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become⟳ his hallmark.”

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