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Recent Examples of scriptwriter
Both play it perfectly straight, which only adds to the enjoyment of a near-perfect people pleaser, and scriptwriter Ben Hopkins is clearly having a field day.
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Rounding out the cast is Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer, a studio scriptwriter competing for Joe’s attention and affection, and Erich von Stroheim as Norma’s devoted butler Max, who once enjoyed earlier career success as Norma’s movie director during the silent film era.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
The Six Days of the Condor author — whose book became the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor — has published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, and has also worked as a journalist and a scriptwriter for TV and film.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 16 July 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, 31 May 2025
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Rounding out the cast is Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer, a studio scriptwriter competing for Joe’s attention and affection, and Erich von Stroheim as Norma’s devoted butler Max, who once enjoyed earlier career success as Norma’s movie director during the silent film era.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
The Six Days of the Condor author — whose book became the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor — has published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, and has also worked as a journalist and a scriptwriter for TV and film.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 16 July 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, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scriptwriter
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The Scriptnotes podcast co-host and Aladdin and Big Fish screenwriter John August will serve as co-chair of the 2026 negotiating committee alongside Survival of the Thickest creator and writer-producer Danielle Sanchez-Witzel.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Métivier, who is also the screenwriter, is a Canadian-Filipina from Montreal.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Jon Walker is a business writer with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.—
Jon Walker,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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Chantz Martin is a sports writer for Fox News Digital.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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To reflect the current moment — when discrimination against not only the LGBTQ community but also the non-binary and transgender communities — is on the rise, playwright Lee rewrote parts of his 2022 play earlier this year in San Francisco.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Nov. 2025
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If a computer can knock off a script in a matter of minutes, what does the future look like for playwrights?—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Nov. 2025
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Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 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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Georgia Fowkes, a travel adviser for tour operator Altezza Travel, told Travel + Leisure bringing a pen can help avoid long lines at immigration and allows passengers to jot down notes like addresses and directions if your phone dies.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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The multidose pen of Zepbound will be available for $299 per month at the lowest dose, with additional doses being priced up to $449 per month.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Scriptwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriptwriter. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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