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to compose and set down on paper the words of
authored a new biography of Thomas Jefferson
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Recent Examples of authoring
Yang is best known for authoring the short story collection The Runaway Restaurant.
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Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Alito’s invocation of stare decisis is similarly peculiar, especially after authoring the opinion that overturned Roe.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 6 Oct. 2025
Vought is credited with authoring the chapter on executive power.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Among Amory’s achievements are co-authoring a chapter in Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag and earning a master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences from SUNY Downstate.
—Essence, 26 Sep. 2025
The website promoting the opportunity was remarkably similar to a co-authoring site launched by Kevin Harrington, one of the original investors on Shark Tank.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
In addition to authoring several bestselling books on business modeling — including 2020’s The Invincible Company — Osterwalder now serves as the founder and CEO of Strategyzer, an innovation consultancy and software development firm that helps companies design, test, and scale new business models.
—Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
Before the Harlem Renaissance had a name, Jessie Redmon Fauset was already drafting its blueprint—curating its voices, refining its vision, and authoring novels that quietly destabilized the racial and gendered hierarchies of American letters.
—Glory Edim
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
And now the Mets are this close to authoring a bigger collapse than anything the 2007 or 2008 team ever could have imagined.
—Jerry Beach, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Alito’s invocation of stare decisis is similarly peculiar, especially after authoring the opinion that overturned Roe.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 6 Oct. 2025
Vought is credited with authoring the chapter on executive power.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Among Amory’s achievements are co-authoring a chapter in Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag and earning a master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences from SUNY Downstate.
—Essence, 26 Sep. 2025
The website promoting the opportunity was remarkably similar to a co-authoring site launched by Kevin Harrington, one of the original investors on Shark Tank.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
In addition to authoring several bestselling books on business modeling — including 2020’s The Invincible Company — Osterwalder now serves as the founder and CEO of Strategyzer, an innovation consultancy and software development firm that helps companies design, test, and scale new business models.
—Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
Before the Harlem Renaissance had a name, Jessie Redmon Fauset was already drafting its blueprint—curating its voices, refining its vision, and authoring novels that quietly destabilized the racial and gendered hierarchies of American letters.
—Glory Edim
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
And now the Mets are this close to authoring a bigger collapse than anything the 2007 or 2008 team ever could have imagined.
—Jerry Beach, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for authoring
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In a similar vein, Timnit Gebru, a computer scientist writing during her time working at Google, warned of the dangers of large language models acting as stochastic parrots, which repeat language patterns without understanding, and in doing so replicate the biases embedded in their training data.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Fairley had previously taken an active role in advocating against the settlement’s roster limits, writing to Congress and assisting a number of Liberty athletes in filing objections.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Jake is penning Rendering, reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz alongside our regular TechLine newsletter.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
31 Oct. 2025
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Rowland unexpectedly found a sense of community by penning feel-good fantasy novels.—
Cheyenne Buckingham,
SELF,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Authoring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authoring. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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