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Recent Examples of scribbler
We should be concerned not just for our personal pocketbooks but for the state of our art—and the current moment calls for dreamers, strummers, and scribblers to be unusually thoughtful, tactical, and shrewd.
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Sean Michaels, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
This was a jaw-dropping, gasp-inducing conga line of events too ludicrous for even the most brazen Hollywood script scribblers.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
In keeping with the book’s first-person format, Catherine keeps a diary and introduces the various other characters with the wit of a budding Jane Austen — the difference being, this young scribbler has no interest in wedding bells.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2022
But Wessex isn’t the only challenge facing the struggling scribbler.
—Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
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Sean Michaels, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
This was a jaw-dropping, gasp-inducing conga line of events too ludicrous for even the most brazen Hollywood script scribblers.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
In keeping with the book’s first-person format, Catherine keeps a diary and introduces the various other characters with the wit of a budding Jane Austen — the difference being, this young scribbler has no interest in wedding bells.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2022
But Wessex isn’t the only challenge facing the struggling scribbler.
—Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scribbler
Noun
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The platform hosts literary fiction writers like George Saunders alongside genre novelists, debut authors and even publishing’s ultimate commercial titan, James Patterson.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2025
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Previously, Sahadev was a national baseball writer for Baseball Prospectus and ESPN Chicago.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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In 2010, Beatty’s biographer Peter Biskind estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275, according to The Guardian.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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In addition to that, biographers have had to to sift through the myths Dylan has built up about his life story.—
Andrew Demillo,
Boston Herald,
15 June 2025
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Such talent is rare, but speaking to the most profound layers of our humanity is not solely the preserve of wordsmiths.—
Nina-Sophia Miralles,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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He might be best known as the Minnesota-via-Brooklyn frontman of the Hold Steady, a punk bar-band wordsmith specializing in down-and-out tales with a Midwest flavor.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2024
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William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb.—
Talia Lavin,
The New Republic,
29 Sep. 2020
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Odell, the author of celebrity biographies like Anna, as well as the essay collection Tales from the Back Row, tells PEOPLE that turning her pen to Paltrow’s story felt like a natural next step.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
12 June 2025
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Cords dangle uncovered from teensy lamps, pens live in a vintage-looking tomato can, and there’s a random magic 8 ball next to the huge hatbox for the huge hat.—
Jocelyn Silver,
Vogue,
12 June 2025
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The Wall Street Journal first reported on the hack.—
Sean Lyngaas,
CNN Money,
15 June 2025
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Most people optimize from the top down, focusing on broad targeting and audience hacks.—
Waleed Najam,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Hair, skin, claws and entire stomach contents can survive eons under the right conditions, said study coauthor Dr. Nathan Wales, senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of York in England.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
14 June 2025
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One the 2024 preprint coauthors refuted the idea that their research found myocarditis and pericarditis were caused by the COVID shots, rather than COVID infection, noting that the study did not compare outcomes between people who were vaccinated and those infected with the COVID virus.—
Jackie Fortiér,
NPR,
13 June 2025
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Scribbler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scribbler. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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