prosaist

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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
  • Today, with talk of a second Oscar nomination, the actor slips into a fatherly role in Hamnet playing the legendary playwright William Shakespeare, based on Maggie O'Farrell’s bestselling 2020 novel of the same name.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This Boston run will feature playwright Ins Choi in the title role, the family father running his Toronto store at the crossroads of two cultures and generations.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Michael Attenborough, Richard Attenborough’s son, and Emma Forbes, daughter of the original movie’s screenwriter, Bryan Forbes, are also exec producing.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It’s been a while since Bigelow was a major player on the Oscar scene, but working off of a script from the screenwriter of Jackie (and, um, The Maze Runner), interest will be piqued.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The competition jury features director Joko Anwar, director Aditya Ahmad, scriptwriter Alim Sudio, and actor Asmara Abigail, who recently served on the Locarno Film Festival jury.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Japanese drama, based on the manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside by Yoshiharu Tsuge, follows Lee, a scriptwriter who is processing what is happening in her life.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As an essayist, Dasgupta has contributed to distinguished outlets such as Harper’s, Granta, and The New Statesman.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In the latest issue of the magazine, the writer and essayist Leslie Jamison reports on the many negative health effects of perfectionism.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
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
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Daniels, for his part, visited papers like The Dallas Morning News and spoke with journalists, while Koman leaned on his lifelong fascination with journalism’s luminaries like Gay Talese and Ben Bradlee.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Prosaist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosaist. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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