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editor

noun

Definition of editornext
1
as in columnist

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as in writer

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Recent Examples of editor Triple-Tony winner Patti LuPone is returning to the New York stage to portray iconic fashion editor Diana Vreeland in the one-woman Off Broadway play Full Gallop. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026 What The Times’ Daniel Hernandez learned dining at fancy restaurants as Food editor. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Perl is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and was the art critic for The New Republic for twenty years and a contributing editor at Vogue for a decade. — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026 Wired editor-in-chief Katie Drummond, whose publication led much of this coverage, says in the movie. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for editor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for editor
  1. columnist
  2. writer
  3. staffer
  4. novelist
  5. pen
  6. author
Noun
  • Commentary and opinion Mosquitoes are making Los Angeles summers a living hell, argues columnist Robin Abcarian.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson encouraged young people to socialize in person and leave the doom scrolling at home.
    — Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of columnist
Noun
  • Our mission is to support readers and writers of all ages and histories, and to build community through fiction.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Information for this article was contributed by Sammy Westfall of The Washington Post and staff writers of The Associated Press.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of writer
Noun
  • The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announced the appointment of longtime creative staffer Coy Middlebrook as its new artistic director.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • One day, a writer who’d been venting her stress at me and another staffer burned all the way through his long fuse.
    — Mike Hogan, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of staffer
Noun
  • All a novelist can do when representing Bush Two’s accomplices is to embody plausible ideologies in specific fictional characters.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The plot, very loosely adapted from a book by Douglas Kennedy, concerns Tom (Ethan Hawke), an American novelist who gets stranded in Paris, broke, with a gluey case of writer’s block.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of novelist
Noun
  • Even small items like mason jars can be repurposed to hold pens and pencils or makeup brushes, the Salvation Army team says.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 25 Sep. 2026
  • According to the Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Insights survey from July, more than half of entrepreneurs use spreadsheets to record and manage transactions, and close to a third still rely on pen and paper.
    — Carson Brunson, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of pen
Noun
  • Flournoy was joined in conversation by Brit Bennett, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Vanishing Half, and Raven Leilani, author of The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize-winning book Luster.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • La Presse said that a 2012 short story by Orelien had plagiarized passages from a book by French author Louis Pauwels, while a 2013 opinion piece copied from The Philippine Star newspaper.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
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