prosaist

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Noun
  • In her introduction of the ordinances, Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas drew a direct tie between the ordinances and the violence in Minneapolis, where ICE agents have killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother of three, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs ICU nurse.
    Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This quote by 13th-century poet Rumi appears midway through psychologist Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication.
    Jasna Hodžić, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • All the more so in the case of the characters in the British playwright Joe White’s Blackout Songs, who can’t remember any details of their first night together.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Buckley plays the wife of a struggling playwright named William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal, whose Oscar omission was a surprise).
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made his feature directorial debut with this, and his fingerprints are all over it, particularly his signature snappy dialogue.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The jury of the new Perspectives section dedicated to first works is made up of Moroccan screenwriter and director Sofia Alaoui; German director and screenwriter Frédéric Hambalek; and Dorota Lech, director of Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.
    Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and essayist based in Brooklyn.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Pizzo, who wrote Rudy and Hoosiers, is the bard of Indiana sports movies — perhaps the bard of all sports movies.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 Jan. 2026
  • One diehard fan in attendance that afternoon: John Mellencamp, bard of Indiana, who's been going to Hoosier games ever since his father took him as a kid.
    Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Strandjord pointed to mounting cases in which US citizens have been detained while protesting or exercising First Amendment rights, including the rights of journalists.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 2 Feb. 2026
  • In an email to Semafor, New York Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Keith Poole argued that Newsom simply isn’t used to receiving the kind of scrutiny that the Post brings to the targets of its coverage, and said that many California readers were already cheering on the paper’s journalists.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Feb. 2026
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“Prosaist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosaist. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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