How to Use write-down in a Sentence

write-down

1 of 2 noun
  • Iger has taken a play from David Zaslav’s book and the streamers have memory-holed a number of shows as tax write-downs.
    Vulture, 12 July 2023
  • Moderna said the lack of demand for vaccine doses in Africa has led to more than $1 billion in losses and write-downs.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Recently, there was a revenue write-down of $250 million.
    William Wivell, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024
  • In the years following the arrival of covid-19, China has been reluctant to grant loan write-downs or to restructure debts.
    Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Holiday Haunt, which were abruptly pulled from WB's release schedule to take tax write-downs last year.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The Supreme Court last month appeared likely to strike down President Biden’s $400 billion student loan write-down.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In a recent earnings report, Disney took a $1.5 billion tax write-down for the content removal.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • This brings the company's total write-down of losses on the Starliner program to more than $1.1 billion.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
  • The company’s profit was dented by a large write-down in its space business, which Mr. Faury said Airbus was working to turn around.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And Ørsted announced a $366 million write-down for the value of one of those ventures in New York, citing several of the issues Avangrid faces.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Unfortunately mothering stalled out in post, and Netflix has decided to take the boots the house tax write-down.
    Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Zaslav eased into the topic of the write-down about 18 minutes into WBD’s second quarter earnings call.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The drugstore chain also announced a $5.8 billion write-down related to VillageMD.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 7 May 2024
  • The film debuted on the streaming service seven weeks ago, but has already been pulled from the streaming service as part of a $1.5 billion write-down (per The Hollywood Reporter).
    Vulture, 5 July 2023
  • The system is likely to be stressed later this year by the cratering of the commercial real estate market and the consequent write-downs of banks’ loans on these properties.
    Lawrence J. White, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • But the real damage is the precedent the write-down may have set, said Benamou of Axiom Alternative Investments.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Erasing original shows from their libraries can help streamers get tax write-downs and, to a smaller extent, save on residual payments.
    R.j. Rico, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The company’s impairment loss in 2022 related to the write-down of goodwill, TV broadcast licenses, tradenames and program rights.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The company also took a nearly $6 billion write-down on the value of its cable networks, which portends further contraction.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The multibillion-dollar write-down marked the beginning of Mr. Lynch’s legal travails, which will culminate this month in another long and complex trial.
    Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Paramount Global is preparing to hike the monthly price of Paramount+ later this year, and the company disclosed its intent to take as much as a $1.5 billion write-down from the integration of Showtime with the streaming platform.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Procter & Gamble said on Tuesday a write-down of its Gillette business and lower price increases hampered its financial results.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In late 2022, Goldman began to pivot away from its nascent consumer operations, beginning a series of write-downs related to selling chunks of the business.
    Hugh Son, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024
  • However, leadership has indicated that those write-downs won't be a major part of the strategy moving forward.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That includes $14 million in write-downs of unused doses of the Covid vaccine and $55 million in charges related to the company’s efforts to scale back its manufacturing footprint, among other costs.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • On Wednesday, Warner Bros. Discovery announced a write-down of its television properties amounting to more than $9 billion.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The bank’s internal controls hadn’t stopped the concentration of risk, and the resulting write-down as Benko’s conglomerate Signa entered bankruptcy wiped out half the lender’s annual profit.
    Bastian Benrath, Fortune Europe, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The hangover from the bursting of the startup bubble is weighing on big U.S. university endowments, with write-downs in their growth and venture-capital investments driving a second straight year of weak returns.
    WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Looking only at the value of Russian asset write-downs ignores the financial and reputational benefits reaped across the rest of the world by the companies that exited Russia.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The lender would be allowed to amortize the write-down over 30 years, get a current tax benefit, and receive equity upside on any sale, with the equity share and lower mortgage payment both negotiated with the borrower.
    Richard Vague, Fortune, 22 June 2023
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write down

2 of 2 verb
  • Check the clock when your power goes out and write down the time.
    Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The Founding Fathers were wise to write down the rules.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Start by having each of you write down all the jobs the other does.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Complete the look with gloves and a folder to write down all of your clues.
    Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Have your child write down the four design elements plus the name of the camp.
    Ruth A. Musgrave, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
  • See what the songs bring up for you, and write down whatever comes to mind.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 May 2024
  • Get the child to write down their worries on pieces of paper, and then feed them to the monster.
    Judith Newman, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • In a small way, sitting down at the start of the month to write down plans is a form of mindfulness.
    Melanie Whyte, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The idea is to write down on a slip of paper the happiest moment of the day and drop it in a jar.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 19 May 2022
  • That being said, judges are allowed to keep a binder to write down clues.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Staff will write down your name, address and phone number and time of check in.
    Teri Webster, Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2021
  • When an actor reads that, that’s a dream to see that written down.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • But write down that master password and hide it in a safe place, just in case.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The delay gave the man a chance to write down the licensee plate number of the vehicle.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Who hasn't been waiting for a time to write down their life story?
    Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
  • It had also been forced to write down the worth of the planes, which are now valued at $35 billion.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Maybe get a pen and some paper, write down the names of all the men who have been mean to you before, and then … don’t date them.
    Damon Young, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Get a ring light, write down your ideas, practice saying them, and have your notes in front of you.
    NBC News, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Ask people to write down their feedback and bring it to a staff meeting.
    Gary Hamel, Quartz at Work, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Build your dream, craft your vision, write down your goals and create a plan.
    Harvey MacKay, Star Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Police found a ledger with states written down for pick-up and drop-off sites for dogs.
    Sarah Nelson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So, take a pen to paper and write down all your fears and anxieties.
    Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 7 July 2021
  • Songwriting was simple: just write down thoughts on his phone and let the melody come to him.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • There were medics writing down what kind of injury each man had.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Each player gets a few slips of paper and a pen, then writes down a celebrity’s name.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Why not write down everything that puts you in a better frame of mind?
    Ellevate, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The truck had a temporary license tag, but the witness wasn’t able to write down the tag number.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The homes of yakuza bosses weren’t published on the internet — but in the rosters of the gangs, they were written down.
    Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Instead of looking through your viewfinder, take a notepad and write down your thoughts.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Keep a journal at your bedside and write down whatever thoughts are coming up for you that morning.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024

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