fictioneer

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Recent Examples of fictioneer The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater. James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictioneer
Noun
  • Take the Bechdel test, coined by cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel in a comic strip.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Woodruff served as showrunner and executive produced alongside novelist Steph Cha with Kim and John Cheng for 3AD; Stephen Christy and Ross Richie for Boom!
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Filmmakers and storytellers like myself and Idris feel a sense of responsibility to telling particular types of stories.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Our Guild is built on the backs of storytellers, visionaries and fierce advocates for the creative and economic rights of our members.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.
    Adam Graham, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.
    Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.
    Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Simon Njami is an independent curator and a lecturer, art critic, and essayist.
    Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Fictioneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictioneer. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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