essayists

Definition of essayistsnext
plural of essayist

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Noun
  • The collaboration with Flanagan’s Red Room Pictures banner extends the studio’s partnership with one of the most commercially successful genre storytellers.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The Huntington Beach Historical Society is hosting a weekend of living history, with historians and storytellers bringing the revolution and fight for American independence to life.
    Heather McRea, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Over the decades, the contest has become a launchpad for many professional playwrights who had their first plays staged at the San Diego festival, including Karen Hartman, Josefina López, Annie Weisman and Lauren Yee.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Poets and playwrights worked alongside speechwriters on his staff.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.
    Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
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