GHOSTWRITER Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

ghostwriter

noun

Definition of ghostwriter

as in scribbler

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Recent Examples of ghostwriter In the final years of his life, Tana became determined to tell that story, working with writers in Serbia and eventually a ghostwriter, Todd Gold, who requested no credit; the resulting memoir feels wholly told in Tana’s voice. — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026 Ava Gardner, The Secret Conversations The actress was contracted to write a memoir, but after hours of conversation with her ghostwriter, changed her mind; this book is drawn from those tapes. — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026 Joe Biden sued the DOJ to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of conversations with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 27 May 2026 Former President Joe Biden is suing the Justice Department in an attempt to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts from private interviews with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir. — Tiago Ventura, Time, 27 May 2026 The young professionals who thrive here treat AI as a sparring partner rather than a ghostwriter. — Andy Molinsky, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026 Following backlash from his former costars, the actor retracted the claims and said he was taken advantage of by a ghostwriter. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026 And yet, in the last chapter of her ghostwritten book, Whoopi Goldberg acknowledges some misgivings about using a ghostwriter. — Emily Hodgson Anderson, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026 But today, language generators can churn out language for appropriation, more cheaply and quickly than a human ghostwriter could. — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghostwriter

Noun

Powering the portable scribbler is 1.7-GHz dual-core processing supported by 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
All remaining scribblers should lay down their squibs and come out, squinting, arms aloft in surrender.

— Jayson Greene, Time, 17 June 2025

Definition of scribbler

Noun

Gail Daughtry was directed and cowritten by David Wain, a veteran of the comedy troupe The State and also the director of the 2001 cult hit Wet Hot American Summer; Marino, another State and Wet Hot alumnus, is his cowriter.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 July 2026
This is very much the spirit of this unabashedly absurd film from director David Wain, who, with his cowriter Ken Marino concluded early on that the idea was really stupid, didn't make sense and went nowhere.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of cowriter

Noun

George has been raised with as normal a childhood as possible given the circumstances, and royal biographer Robert Hardman told Hello!

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 22 July 2026
From an early age, Forster was in a hurry, and as his biographer, Wulf must dash along, too.

— Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026

Definition of biographer

Noun

The homeowners quickly connected with study coauthor Mike Hankey at the American Meteor Society, who guided them through preserving the sample and minimizing contamination.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Staci Hill is the cofounder Gooseberry Bridge Farm and coauthor of the The Preserver’s Garden.

— Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 14 July 2026

Definition of coauthor

Noun

But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.

— Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb.

— Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020

Definition of hagiographer

Noun

OpenAI said on Tuesday that some of its AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.

— Reuters, NBC news, 21 July 2026
Experts have been warning that AI agents are quickly becoming capable enough to carry these sorts of autonomous attacks—but the Hugging Face hack appears to be among the first real world examples.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 20 July 2026

Definition of hack

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