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librettist

noun

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as in lyricist

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Recent Examples of librettist 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 The librettist Gene Scheer thinned this fat, meaty book down to a fleet skeleton, organizing the characters into shifting pairs. — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for librettist

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Peart, who also served as Rush’s primary lyricist, is routinely cited as one of rock’s greatest drummers.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 6 Aug. 2026
But throughout much of this time, the lyricist has also maintained a solo career that’s flown so far under the radar that many Elton John fans are unaware that Taupin’s own work even exists.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026

Definition of lyricist

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Everything in between is a dream, at least according to Anthony Hopkins, composer of orchestral music.

— Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
The renowned producer, songwriter, and composer founded the organization 40 years ago to provide financial assistance to Canadian families whose children are awaiting a vital organ transplant.

— Valentine Ulgu-Servant, Vanity Fair, 10 Aug. 2026

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Roth has spent months planning a performance artwork inspired by Irene di Spilimbergo, a 16th-century painter, student, and muse of Titian who at one point lived in the Palazzo dei Fiori.

— Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
Williams did her own makeup for her media appearances while Keopple sent her muse down the orange carpets in two distinct looks featuring her own custom designs and luxury pieces.

— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 11 Aug. 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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