CREATORS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

creators

noun

plural of creator

as in founders

a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor although some people see Freud as the creator of psychology, that isn't really true

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Recent Examples of creators An American who knows nothing about real football comes to the place where it was invented and attempts to tell the creators of the sport how to play. — Jay Martel, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026 This latest collaboration builds on Moynat’s push to work with artists and pop-culture creators. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 The studio has so far struck deals with long-time Fox collaborator Ramsay, comedian Tom Segura and creators like Richards, who makes YouTube sketch comedy Read the Room. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 But for now, African microdrama creators are excited to get in on the ground floor. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 But Bethenny Media will also be in the business of other creators, too. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026 The most frightening risk is AI creators losing control of their models, a once abstract possibility that may be inching closer to reality. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Ithaca Holdings co-founders Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will become co-CEOs.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
So the city loses out not only on new companies that would otherwise set up shop here but also on a group of founders who might have channeled their profits into the next generation of startups.

— Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

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The authors found a long-run relationship between top incomes and art prices and argued that high-end art prices are driven less by the average person’s buying power than by how much the wealthiest can spend.

— Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The authors noted the circumstances surrounding the violent act, and whether other early humans could have been involved in the individual’s death, were completely unknown.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of authors

Noun

In return for this disclosure, inventors — and any companies that license the patents — receive a limited period of time where no rival is able to copy the discovery and sell it as their own.

— Dr. Bowman Heiden, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Its real impact emerged as leaders, inventors and entrepreneurs redesigned factories, cities, products, infrastructure and daily life around capabilities that had not previously existed at scale.

— Brian Solis, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of inventors

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Those girls in the hothouses maintained by fathers and uncles certainly would not spare a single thought for Percherette.

— Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
Nearly every player on the team is a dad, with seemingly a few players becoming first-time fathers each of the past few seasons.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

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