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Write up

noun

A short account of the news. Synonyms: account, news report, report, story. "The story was on the 11 o'clock news" , "The account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"

verb

Bring to public notice by writing, with praise or condemnation. "Did your boss write you up?"

Put into writing; write in complete form. Synonym: write out.

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... Lyman, lighting a cigar. "You wouldn't expect a man to write up his own marriage, any more than ...

— Old Ebenezer • Opie Read

... little sigh and leaned closer to me, giving herself into my care as trustfully as a child. Until that time she had been just a figure in the great war game that might provide me with something to 'write up' into a book. That had been my principal thought. Now, all in a few moments, her beauty, the frightened look which had shone in her great grey eyes, her distress made me forget all that, drove all thoughts of traffic with publishers from ...

— War and the Weird • Forbes Phillips

... than the one we had proposed; but we thought the concealment which he had practised towards us, while seemingly entering into our own project, an affront: and even had we not thought so, we were indisposed to expend any more of our time and trouble in attempting to write up the Review under his management. Accordingly my father excused himself from writing; though two or three years later, on great pressure, he did write one more political article. As for me, I positively refused. And thus ended my connexion with the original ...

— Autobiography • John Stuart Mill

... with all his energies to write up the administration and to defend the Governor against the fierce and reiterated attacks of the opposition. About this period there appeared some articles in a paper in Augusta, Georgia, reflecting upon Mr. Crawford, in reply to several ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

... work of any kind, good writer and correspondent, accustomed to literary work, or would write up Parish ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 • Various

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