screenwriter

noun

Definition of screenwriternext
as in playwright

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Recent Examples of screenwriter But the horror director and screenwriter still has his eyes set on adapting other King stories. — Matt Minton, Variety, 1 Aug. 2026 Actor, screenwriter, director and producer Sylvester Stallone turned 80 in July 2026. — Laura Millar, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026 Liz Craft, a screenwriter and cohost of the podcast Happier in Hollywood, began taking Mounjaro for her Type-1 diabetes two years ago. — Elyse Moody, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026 Christopher Nolan has been rightly praised, as a director, for his unparalleled commitment to practical effects and rightly criticized, as a screenwriter, for an attendantly labored approach to story. — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for screenwriter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
  1. playwright
  2. scriptwriter
  3. writer
  4. dramatist
  5. scenarist
  6. pen
Noun
  • Logan, who also is a Tony-winning playwright, is repped by CAA.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Several years ago, performer and playwright Ty Autry had the idea of bringing together an Atlanta performing arts festival for the LGBTQ community.
    — Jim Farmer, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of playwright
Noun
  • Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, whom Hegseth installed after firing Cao’s predecessor, then weighed in with a Hollywood scriptwriter’s cheesy panache to say the incident debrief was complete.
    — Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
  • The goal every amateur scriptwriter had written, and then thrown in the bin for not being quite spectacular enough.
    — Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Definition of scriptwriter
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  • Contributing Writer Laura Itzkowitz is a freelance writer and editor with a passion for covering travel, arts and culture, lifestyle, design, food, and wine.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Ahmed Naji is a bilingual writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and official criminal from Egypt.
    — Sabrina Jaszi, The Dial, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of writer
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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.
    — 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
Definition of dramatist
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  • Liberal scenarists will be left wondering what if, though, as Congresswoman Katie Porter will end up notching more than 400,000 votes — enough, potentially, to have given Steyer the win had the fellow liberal Democrat dropped out.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
  • The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
Definition of scenarist
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  • For weeks Haitians living in the United States, including here in South Florida, have been warned that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) would be coming to an end, and on Wednesday that decision became final with the stroke of a judge's pen.
    — Tania Francois, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • People are much more comfortable pushing their physical bodies to their limits, rather than sitting down to stretch their imaginations with pen and paper.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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