AUTHORS Synonyms: 134 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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plural of author

as in writers

a person who creates a written work a brilliant novel by a first-time author

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a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor the author of modern genetics

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verb

present tense third-person singular of author

as in writes

to compose and set down on paper the words of authored a new biography of Thomas Jefferson

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Recent Examples of authors

Noun

The fact that those dreary assessments have very little to do with the actual wants and needs of the vast majority of Californians — not to mention the state’s history of electing mostly dull and drab governors — should give their authors pause. —

Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026 In five separate experiments, the authors devised artificial foraging setups that contained cavities hidden beneath surfaces. —

Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026 The study authors analyzed 18 years of high-resolution radio observations collected through a global telescope network. —

Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026 But because of the comparative lack of accessible Soviet-era records, Forassiepi and his co-authors chose the probe as a case study. —

Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 10 May 2026 The authors suggest that because exercise boosts feel-good hormones, such as dopamine, and reduces the stress hormone cortisol, smokers who work out feel less inclined to use nicotine as a brain reward. —

Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026 There’s also a community aspect – like many LitRPG authors, Dinniman started publishing the series as a web novel, chapter by chapter. —

Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 9 May 2026 During the long aftermath of the civil-rights movement, many authors and advocates imagined that King’s struggle could be continued by expanding its reach. —

Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 This essay is part of a series developed in collaboration with World Business Chicago wherein accomplished authors envision what Chicago could and should look like in 2050. —

Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026

Verb

While not all of the slowdown in box production can be attributable to falling demand for goods, the slump is present in other areas of the freight economy, said Adam Josephson, a longtime paper and packaging sell-side analyst who now authors an economics newsletter. —

Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025

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The sketch was written by human writers and all the characters are played by actors, save for the AI girlfriend who is — yes — synthetic herself.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
Like Soldier Boy at times, the Legend is a character who mainly exists as an excuse for the writers to include copious references to old starlets these men have banged.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 May 2026