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Recent Examples of screenwriter
Lehane is a novelist, most recently of Small Mercies, and screenwriter.
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10 June 2026
The original movie's screenwriter Robin Schiff has returned to write the sequel, with Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming, Camryn Manheim and Julia Campbell reprising their roles from the original.
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Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died April 8, 2025.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
Later in her career, Yaeger shifted her career from publicist to producer and screenwriter.
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Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
4 June 2026
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Time,
10 June 2026
The original movie's screenwriter Robin Schiff has returned to write the sequel, with Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming, Camryn Manheim and Julia Campbell reprising their roles from the original.
—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died April 8, 2025.
—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
Later in her career, Yaeger shifted her career from publicist to producer and screenwriter.
—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
4 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for screenwriter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Use a playwright as company in a room that had previously seemed uninhabitable.
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The Tony-winning playwright, whose works include Take Me Out and The Assembled Parties, died of cancer in 2025 at 67.
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Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.
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Undiluted drama, pure cinema and narratives that even the best scriptwriters in Hollywood would struggle to muster up.
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There’s a lot of hard work that goes into being a shopping writer, but there’s a lot of play, too.
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Times staff writer Sonja Sharp contributed to this report.
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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.
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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.
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Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
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Injection pens for the weight loss treatment Wegovy, manufactured by Novo Nordisk A/S, on display during a news conference in Mumbai, India, June 24, 2025.
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President Bill Clinton’s veto pen spared some district laws, while congressional GOP lawmakers at times succeeded at blocking others.
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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