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as in director
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Recent Examples of auteur
The film follows two daughters’ fraught relationship with their auteur father, put to the test after the death of their mother.
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Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
The festival has long served as a showcase for international cinema, featuring celebrated auteurs and new talent, with red carpet events that reflect its cultural prominence, hosted annually by Film at Lincoln Center.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
The American auteur's latest concoction, radical comedic thriller One Battle After Another, earned Anderson the best box office open of his career this weekend, with a $22.4 million take domestically and an impressive global haul of $48.5 million, per Comscore.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
The film sits firmly in the tradition of Jordan Peele, the horror auteur whose Get Out was a blockbuster hit in 2017.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
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Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
The festival has long served as a showcase for international cinema, featuring celebrated auteurs and new talent, with red carpet events that reflect its cultural prominence, hosted annually by Film at Lincoln Center.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
The American auteur's latest concoction, radical comedic thriller One Battle After Another, earned Anderson the best box office open of his career this weekend, with a $22.4 million take domestically and an impressive global haul of $48.5 million, per Comscore.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
The film sits firmly in the tradition of Jordan Peele, the horror auteur whose Get Out was a blockbuster hit in 2017.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auteur
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Frankie first became a sports writer in 1991 at the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway and has served in the past as sports editor at the Siloam Springs Herald Leader and the Benton County Daily Record in Bentonville.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 Oct. 2025
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Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY, sign up for the email here.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency is not so fortunate, said Renee Pertile, early childhood director at the agency.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Gunterman is immersed in local student journalism as the executive director of the Indiana High School Press Association and the faculty adviser of Franklin College's student newspaper.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
27 Oct. 2025
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In a world before stylists and social media, celebrities had room to dress according to their mood and personal taste — not to mention the freedom to experiment away from the pitchforks of an Instagram comment section.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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He was recently spotted with 32-year-old stylist Hannah Harrison.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
23 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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Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase as E Street’s Max Weinberg, and label impresario Jimmy Iovine as himself (that’s Iovine’s real voice screaming at Jon Landau over the phone) are a treat for rock fans.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
25 Oct. 2025
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There's music impresario Bill Graham and William Randolph Hearst, the news tycoon.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 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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Noel, now an in-demand stage director, is appointed founding director of the Globe.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Oct. 2025
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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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What To Know Several trade organizations representing cattle producers have issued critical responses to Trump’s proposal.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Latrobe Magnesium, Australia's primary producer of the critical metal magnesium, notched gains of more than 15%.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auteur. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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