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

Or because the research may have been funded by the CDC and the authors potentially knew or assumed the conclusion they were supposed to reach. —

Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026 There’s a special book club designed for deep dives with your favorite YA authors, as well as signings, conversations, and workshops. —

Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 The world still needs human authors to generate wild ideas. —

Megan McArdle, Washington Post, 31 May 2026 Studying disease expression in non-adults As study authors described, Camino del Molino, in Caravaca de la Cruz, is the most significant due to its size as a Copper Age collective burial in Europe. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026 The study authors agree more research needs to be done. —

Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 30 May 2026 Three authors with ties to the south suburbs were among the recipients of Best of Illinois 2026 awards from the Illinois State Historical Society, announced last month. —

Jim Dudlicek, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026 Absolutely, say the co-authors of a new statewide hiking guide that encompasses more than 1,000 Sunshine State trails. —

Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026 The report’s authors estimated that, before mitigation measures such as patient isolation were initiated, the virus’s reproduction number was above two, meaning that each infected person spread the virus to more than two others. —

Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 May 2026

Verb

Perhaps if the team authors a more precipitous decline and those gaps grow, there will be a more serious conversation about conducting a selloff. —

Chandler Rome, New York Times, 25 May 2026 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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Bennett and Travelstead serve as showrunners, writers and executive producers.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 June 2026
Plus placing that onus on editors could put magazines in the unsavory position of policing writers.

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 June 2026