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as in director
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Recent Examples of auteur
New York Film Festival offer a glimpse into the preoccupations guiding our foremost auteurs.
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Asian auteurs set to attend include Jia Zhangke, Johnnie To, Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Sang-il, who has Cannes entry and recent box office hit Kokuho screening in the Gala Presentations section, and Korea’s Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Lee Chang-dong.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2025
Here, the Canadian auteur began to rewrite, or define altogether, body horror, and Shivers finds him at his most disgustingly wacky.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Minus Reeves, his dreams of a career as a movie auteur were spiraling down the drain once more.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Asian auteurs set to attend include Jia Zhangke, Johnnie To, Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Sang-il, who has Cannes entry and recent box office hit Kokuho screening in the Gala Presentations section, and Korea’s Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Lee Chang-dong.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2025
Here, the Canadian auteur began to rewrite, or define altogether, body horror, and Shivers finds him at his most disgustingly wacky.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Minus Reeves, his dreams of a career as a movie auteur were spiraling down the drain once more.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auteur
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Coming after his success as a co-writer on partner Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar hit Barbie (2023), Jay Kelly appears to signal a new chapter for the Baumbach, one less defined by fracture and regret than by celebration.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Every article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of personal finance.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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Noah Fay, senior director of housing programs at another nonprofit that runs homeless shelters, said the desire to avoid disruptions for residents has to be balanced against the desire to keep beds full when unmet demand in Seattle is enormous.—
Ashley Hiruko,
ProPublica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Daryl Crouch was Green Hill's pastor from 2012-2021 and now serves as executive director of Everyone's Wilson, a network of churches that work to create spiritual and social initiatives in the community.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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The stylists, mostly men, are called clippers or fitters.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Like paper dolls and other dress-up toys before it, the Lakeshore Learning Magnetic Dress & Play Dolls lets little ones act as little stylists, mixing-and-matching six different outfits.—
Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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King Kyle Lee, a local artist and leader of the Anti Bullying Gang, helped make McKinnon’s hope turn into a reality, bringing a make-shift recording studio to the young wordsmith’s hospital room to lay down vocals for his track.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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In much the way Men in Love the novel places Welsh’s own writing in dialogue with the wordsmiths of history, the Men in Love album offers a conversation between two lovers.—
Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
30 July 2025
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The Curb Records impresario has achieved significant success through his three decades of involvement in Belmont University's Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Aug. 2025
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My mother was the impresario of our outfits.—
Amanda Uhle
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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Collaboration has been at the heart of (La)Horde and their next act is with the sculptor and stage director Théo Mercier.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
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Connors also stars in Crazy Love, the debut feature by stage director Kevin Treacy and cinematographer Jason Byrne.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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The new group brings together 33 years of production expertise, a catalog of thousands of titles, and strong financial backing, positioning itself as a one-stop partner for producers and buyers worldwide.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2025
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There has been a lot of work done on hubs to accelerate the development of technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere in states that are major producers of oil and gas, like Texas and Louisiana, with some viewing them as a lifeline for the polluting fossil fuel industry.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auteur. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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