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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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The film centers on composer Nakamura Hachidai, lyricist Ei Rokusuke and singer Sakamoto Kyu, played respectively by Okada Junichi, Matsuzaka Tori and Nakano Taiga.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
Parton later served as the composer and lyricist for the musical.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of lyricist

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Palestinian, Kashmiri and Indian poets are interwoven throughout, framing the film as a meditation on remembering what has been erased from home and pushing back once staying quiet stops being an option.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2026
Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, has died.

— Hillel Italie, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

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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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