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as in writer
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as in director
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Recent Examples of auteur
The acclamation continued to build, and the Spanish auteur was overcome with gratitude — for a few moments.
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Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
Trier seems to have consolidated the Euro vote, and the directing lineup doesn’t feel complete without one Scandinavian auteur.
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Nate Jones,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2026
The Girls auteur and Not That Kind of Girl author returns to the page for another memoir, this one focused on her life between 2010 and 2020.
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Hillary Busis,
Vanity Fair,
22 Dec. 2025
But Marty Supreme also bears the stamp of a gifted auteur carving out his own space with his own signature and his own deep connection to New York past and present.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Dec. 2025
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Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
Trier seems to have consolidated the Euro vote, and the directing lineup doesn’t feel complete without one Scandinavian auteur.
—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2026
The Girls auteur and Not That Kind of Girl author returns to the page for another memoir, this one focused on her life between 2010 and 2020.
—
Hillary Busis,
Vanity Fair,
22 Dec. 2025
But Marty Supreme also bears the stamp of a gifted auteur carving out his own space with his own signature and his own deep connection to New York past and present.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auteur
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There’s a lot of hard work that goes into being a shopping writer, but there’s a lot of play, too.
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Times staff writer Sonja Sharp contributed to this report.
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Rejoining would also generate yet more uncertainty for companies which are only just adapting to the new trading relationship, said Sean McGuire, a director at the Confederation of British Industry, a business lobby group.
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It was confirmed by the episode’s director in which Rhaena was given the eggs, that those eggs went on to belong to Daenerys in Game of Thrones.
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Rikki Kanellopoulos is a vintage collector and stylist and the founder of Sourced by Rikki.
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An InStyle editor taps a stylist to see how the fashion crowd is styling their sports jerseys this season.
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Self-taught, Dillon spent his 20s living with the Los Angeles gallery impresario Patrick Painter, who introduced him to artists like Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.
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White is the latest impresario to profit enormously from the fascination that human beings have always had with watching other human beings fight.
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Kerri comes from an improv background but is also a technical wordsmith.
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One of two Colorado spellers competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee advanced to Wednesday’s quarterfinals, conquering the first three rounds of the competition that drew nearly 250 of the nation’s best young wordsmiths to Washington, D.C., this week.
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Starring Stephen Fung, Chrissie Chau, Myolie Wu, and Angela Yuen, the film follows a celebrated stage director whose grip on the boundary between theater and reality begins to dissolve during the casting of a new production.
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But rather, the nose behind the bestselling scents from Amouage, Jean Paul Gaultier and Carolina Herrera started his studies backstage — literally — and his university training as a stage director has become central to his ethos as a perfumer.
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.
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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.
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Justin Jain, a ceramic artist, actor and producer, was inspired by activism but also the energy, joy, community and creativity of the LGBTQ+ activists who came before him.
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The difference will always be that none of those producers had the first act Peter Asher did — being a pop star who emerged from the same magic ecosphere as the Beatles.
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auteur. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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