GHOSTWRITER Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

ghostwriter

noun

Definition of ghostwriter

as in scribbler

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Recent Examples of ghostwriter 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 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

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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

Waititi and cowriter Dahvi Waller were able to weave together an uplifting, warm story starring Jenna Ortega as Klara, the Artificial Friend who is adopted by a woman (Amy Adams) as a companion for her daughter Josie (Mia Tharia).

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 18 June 2026
By populating the green with so many conflicting personalities, director and cowriter Harold Ramis makes golf seem both monumentally silly and, despite its staid trappings, unexpectedly freewheeling.

— Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 18 June 2026

Definition of cowriter

Noun

According to biographer William Shawcross, author of The Queen Mother, Elizabeth finally said yes in 1923.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Madonna never set out to become a classic British lady of the manor, however, until fate intervened when she was introduced to Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton's suave biographer, through a mutual friend in 1998.

— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026

Definition of biographer

Noun

Inspired by the sensibility of a tantalizingly idiosyncratic writer-performer, the play offered Greenspan the opportunity to star in a Greenspan-esque work not of his own devising.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Every mortgage article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of the products.

— Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 8 July 2026

Definition of writer

Noun

The research also advances our understanding of how dinosaurs moved around the southern continents, according to study coauthor Samantha Beeston, a palaeontology doctoral student at University College London.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
Núñez was coauthor of a study published in 2023 in the journal Buildings that examined a type of concrete building higher than 20 stories and built to minimum Venezuelan code requirements.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 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

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