as in liar
a person who tells lies
he's something of a storyteller, so I wouldn't put too much stock in anything he says
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Recent Examples of storyteller
As in previous years, however, the festival’s primary mission is to empower the next generation of cinematic storytellers by providing a forum for their proof-of-concept shorts.
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
Zoe Saldaña presented the Icon Award — for an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact — to Cruz, and Martin Scorsese gave Springsteen the inaugural Legacy Award, for an artist whose body of work has inspired generations of storytellers and deeply influenced our culture.
—Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2025
Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor and a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself.
—NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
An award-winning storyteller is returning to the anchor desk after a few years away.
—Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
Zoe Saldaña presented the Icon Award — for an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact — to Cruz, and Martin Scorsese gave Springsteen the inaugural Legacy Award, for an artist whose body of work has inspired generations of storytellers and deeply influenced our culture.
—Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2025
Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor and a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself.
—NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
An award-winning storyteller is returning to the anchor desk after a few years away.
—Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for storyteller
liar
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Santos was exposed after his victory as a habitual liar.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
17 Oct. 2025
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But one scholar, Anthony Grafton, who about thirty years ago published Forgers and Critics, focused on how in the early modern period, there was this enormous flourishing not only of culture but also of liars.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Storyteller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/storyteller. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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