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librettist

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as in lyricist

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Recent Examples of librettist Jackson had a similar experience during grad school with Jackie O, by the composer Michael Daugherty and the librettist Wayne Koestenbaum. — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2026 The Grammys and the opera category The Best Opera Recording award goes to the conductor, album producers, principal soloists, and the composer and librettist, if applicable, of a world premiere opera recording. — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2026 Their liberating actions are symbolic by design, according to Davis and librettist Havis. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026 Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic, and videomaker. — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for librettist

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Chatten, the band’s main lyricist, was also inspired by his friend Nikolaj Schultz’s book Land Sickness, a semifictional tale of eco-anxiety.

— Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026
After more than four decades of supporting Stateside composers and lyricists working across visual media, the Society of Composers & Lyricists has opened its first permanent international chapter in London.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of lyricist

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There are new openings, such as the Cape Froward National Park in Chile, and landmark anniversaries, like a Beethoven festival in Leipzig, Germany, to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
The sixth annual fundraiser honored Oscar winner Charlize Theron with the Icon Award, filmmaker and composer John Carpenter with the Luminary Award and Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo with the Vantage Award.

— Deputy Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

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The cosmonauts plonked down on November 19th, 1965 in the Midlands market town of Rugby, a cultural backwater best known for the sport, the school, and wartime poet Rupert Brooke, in that order.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
In 1938 the poet Antonio Machado, his mother, and his brother made their way from Spain to France to escape Franco’s advancing fascist forces.

— Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of poet

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While today The Attico’s bestsellers range from the Anja bomber jacket to the Fern cargo pants that have found a big fan in the duo’s ultimate muse Cher, Tordini and Ambrosio included in the new capsule collection nods to their own favorite pieces.

— Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
In broad, romantic strokes, Diotima is Scott’s ultimate muse.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of muse

Noun

Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.

— New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.

— Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018

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