ghostwriter

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Recent Examples of ghostwriter Now with celebrity status as a bad boy, Wale is looking for a ghostwriter to pen his memoir. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025 Others include Chicago native Elijah Bennett, a film graduate and ghostwriter who describes himself as a storyteller. Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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 the same time, President Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley compared Ingrassia to the Democratic nominee to become Virginia’s next attorney general, Jay Jones.
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Although Fawnie doesn’t have any notable namesakes, the late biographer Fawn Brodie was one of the first female professors at UCLA, and artist Fawn Krieger is a recent recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant.
    Sarah Scott, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This year, the four debut categories that make up the filmmaker new talent longlists include 12 first-time fiction feature directors, 13 first-time feature documentary directors, 16 first-time writers, and 16 breakthrough producers.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Palmer didn’t share her manuscript with anyone, including her husband, Estep Nagy, who is a writer.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The fossils were found during excavations between 2019 and 2021 by a team led by coauthor Louise Leakey.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Throughout much of the early aughts, the German bank publicly set very high targets for return on equity ranging from 20% to 25%, Admati and coauthor Martin Hellwig explained in their book, The Bankers’ New Clothes.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
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
  • King Kyle Lee, a local artist and leader of the Anti Bullying Gang, helped make McKinnon’s hope turn into a reality, bringing a make-shift recording studio to the young wordsmith’s hospital room to lay down vocals for his track.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In much the way Men in Love the novel places Welsh’s own writing in dialogue with the wordsmiths of history, the Men in Love album offers a conversation between two lovers.
    Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Use this simple hack to pinpoint the source of the problem and discover inexpensive solutions to save money on your energy bill costs.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
  • McGovern shared his school drop off hack in a reel on Instagram, which has gone viral, amassing over 120,000 views.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 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

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“Ghostwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostwriter. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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