proser

Definition of prosernext

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Noun
  • Text assembled by the playwright Anna Deavere Smith voices the sentiments of past dancers while the current Ailey crew demonstrates its strength.
    Zoë Hopkins, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
  • Highlights include a world premiere starring acclaimed actress Judith Ivey, a fresh take on Jane Austen by popular playwright Ken Ludwig and an autobiographical one-woman show by Broadway performer Sharone Sayegh.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Kings, poets, scientists and revolutionaries wanted to meet him and sought his advice.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic Pikes Peak During the summer of 1893, poet and literature professor Katharine Lee Bates joined other teachers working in Colorado Springs for the summer and took a ride to the top of Pikes Peak.
    Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Authorities have identified the hiker who suffered a fatal medical emergency in Runyon Canyon as 78-year-old screenwriter William Hasley.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • Lehane is a novelist, most recently of Small Mercies, and screenwriter.
    Time, Time, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
  • In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
    Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Turn ChatGPT into a strategist, an analyst, a hook researcher, a structural editor, and a scriptwriter trained on your voice.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • But then, just as the scriptwriters were smelling another famous European night in Liverpool, Mariani was sent to the monitors by the VAR.
    Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Those who have lived to tell their tales have directly passed them down to a Birmingham native named Barry McNealy, an essential bard of Alabama’s Black American history.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • In theory, an AI governance committee operates like an institutional review bard or a pharmacy and therapeutics committee.
    David Talby, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • There also lies the influence of Chilean essayist Pedro Lemebel, braided into Delgado Lopera’s narrative of a father, Ignacio; his 12-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Valentina; and his trans mother, Mamadora Eléctrica, inspired by the author’s own trans mother, Adela Vázquez.
    Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • Kramer, a playwright and essayist who had been covering AIDS since the beginning through journalism, had co-founded the non-profit Gay Men’s Health Crisis in 1982.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Award-winning journalist Melanie Haiken covers travel, food, science, health, and the environment from her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2026
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“Proser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proser. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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