ghostwriter

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Recent Examples of ghostwriter Joe Biden sued the Justice Department on Tuesday in an effort to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of the former president’s interview with a ghostwriter that were obtained by the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified documents. Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 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 It was written alongside ghostwriter Judith Perrignon, translated into English by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver, and published by Penguin Press. Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 18 Feb. 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
Noun
  • At least one of his cowriter nominees, Mehdi Mahmoudian, was unable to leave Iran to attend Sunday’s awards.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Zamiri and Aitchison worked closely with cowriter Bertie Brandes to crack the movie, which chronicles a dramatic shift for Charli as an artist, as people start to see her in a different light.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.
    Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University, a staff writer for Lit Hub, and the editor of Belt Magazine.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Ernest Chambers, a prolific TV writer-producer whose 60-year career working on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, My Three Sons, The Dick Van Dyke Show and dozens of specials and variety shows that landed him 11 Emmy nominations, has died.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • Mosca and his coauthor based their prediction on the opinions of 26 experts.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • Staci Hill is the cofounder of Gooseberry Bridge Farm, and coauthor of The Preserver’s Garden.
    Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 25 Apr. 2026
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
Noun
  • But Fleming leaps past other wry wordsmiths with his constant, unrelenting effort to wring every last drop of laughter out of every single premise.
    John Roy, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
  • An outstanding producer and a clever wordsmith.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The company’s data breach notice filed with the Maine Attorney General’s office said the hack affected 5,995,277 people’s personal information.
    Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
  • Another travel hack that’ll help make the entire journey seamless?
    Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2026

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“Ghostwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostwriter. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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