proser

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Noun
  • Over the ensuing decades, Giard photographed writers working across many genres—playwrights, poets, novelists, theorists, memoirists, critics, even cookbook authors.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
  • Five years later, playwright and producer Vanessa Lynn filed a lawsuit against TPS, accusing the mogul of idea theft over his TV series The Have and Have Nots.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • His spouse is perilously close to beginning an affair with the best man at their wedding, now one of his authors, a war poet disillusioned by violence and fanaticism.
    Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • My heroes weren’t wandering poets enraptured with the sea.
    James Rebanks June 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Brooks and Bancroft had one son together, Max, now a screenwriter himself.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • With Villeneuve onboard, the search is now underway for a screenwriter, and eventually, the next famous face brave enough to accept the mission of playing the suave super spy.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 June 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
  • The likes of Maxton Hall scriptwriter Julia Dehne, Smallville showrunner Kelly Souders and Banijay Entertainment co-fiction chief Johannes Jensen are in town for Seriencamp.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 June 2025
  • The growing awareness of feminism in the '70s spurred Houlihan's transformation from caricature to real person, but a lot of the change was due to Swit's influence on the scriptwriters.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • Thoughts come, too, about sleep, time, and men, those cretins, pilgrims, scholars, and bards.
    Jane Alison June 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
  • In other words, the Panthers were trying bard to enlist Sly’s talents and influence for their own purposes.
    Timothy Crouse, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • How Iran might strike back, by Colin P. Clarke, guest essayist, The New York Times.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 23 June 2025
  • Jessica Kiang Film critic, essayist and programmer with bylines in Variety, Sight & Sound, Criterion, Mubi, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, Film Comment and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • In a show of business as usual, Vucic handed out presidential awards in the capital, including to artists and journalists.
    Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
  • Furthermore, there is a sustained effort to undermine the freedom of the press by targeting journalists, suing media outlets, pulling funding and even politicizing the White House press pool.
    Michael Pfleger, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
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“Proser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proser. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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