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Recent Examples of screenwriter
The brand, which currently operates more than 160 stores in mainland China, has been smart about curating the right mix of ambassadors to reach different demographics in China, with director, actress, screenwriter Jia Ling, as well as singer, songwriter, actress and fashion icon Chris Lee.
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Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
Executive producers include Buccaneer CEO Tony Wood, screenwriter Milly Thomas, alongside music legend Slash, Myles, Federico Ambrosini, Niclas Salomonsson and Sund.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Kimmel's personal account posted a photo of the host with the late screenwriter Norman Lear, who in 1981 founded People For The American Way, an organization dedicated to First Amendment rights.
—Sarah Whitten,gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
One was Ted Griffin, a successful screenwriter whose credits include Ocean's Eleven and Matchstick Men, who also worked on The Shield and Terriers.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025
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Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
Executive producers include Buccaneer CEO Tony Wood, screenwriter Milly Thomas, alongside music legend Slash, Myles, Federico Ambrosini, Niclas Salomonsson and Sund.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Kimmel's personal account posted a photo of the host with the late screenwriter Norman Lear, who in 1981 founded People For The American Way, an organization dedicated to First Amendment rights.
—Sarah Whitten,gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
One was Ted Griffin, a successful screenwriter whose credits include Ocean's Eleven and Matchstick Men, who also worked on The Shield and Terriers.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
7 Sep. 2025
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The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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Also like Lockwood, the narrator is working with a playwright to adapt a story about her family into a television series.—
Bekah Waalkes,
The Atlantic,
25 Sep. 2025
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Finley is an actor-playwright — a good one, too, having been recognized multiple times by the statewide Jerry Awards and Jerry Ensemble for excellence in high school musical theater.—
Kylie Volavongsa,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Coming after his success as a co-writer on partner Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar hit Barbie (2023), Jay Kelly appears to signal a new chapter for the Baumbach, one less defined by fracture and regret than by celebration.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Every article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of personal finance.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2022
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So Lee and Marlon strike a deal — Lee’s freedom in exchange for his pen.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Or might a loss at Carolina next Sunday immediately spring open that pen and let the wolves back out full-throated?—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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