lyrist

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Noun
  • At the end of the historic galleries, where light begins pouring into the building, visitors move above ground and pass by a quote from poet and Civil Rights activist Langston Hughes.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Their other brother, Brad, is a poet who followed his brothers into the Oz writers’ room and has since worked on shows like The Americans.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ashman was the lyricist behind a number of Disney’s biggest successes, including Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, in addition to Beauty and the Beast.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Noun
  • Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
    Sarah Vitali, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
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
Noun
  • But in this history, Thompson and Klein, bard of the Times’ daily podcast, make a legible case for the failings of 20th century liberalism.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But Frost, who attended Harvard, lived for a time in England and taught for many years at Amherst College, was hardly an unpolished rustic bard.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Shot on a real-life lavish Utah estate, Mountainhead is another modern satire from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong — who reunited with that HBO drama’s composer Nicholas Britell for more unforgettable music.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Now-former The White Lotus composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer won the Emmy Award for his theme song for the HBO series’ third season Saturday, despite the track sparking a disagreement with creator Mike White that resulted in Tapia de Veer’s exit from the show.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over a 7 year period, librettist Brenda Shaughnessy and composer Paola Prestini, directed by Jerron Herman and Jay Scheib, created Sensorium Ex, culminating in a premier performance in Omaha, Nebraska in May 2025.
    Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • Classical Field In Classical Categories, composers and lyricists/librettists are now eligible for GRAMMY recognition alongside all other key creative personnel including artists, producers, and engineers on winning albums.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 June 2025
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“Lyrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrist. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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